Teaching robots how to read
NOV 30, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024863
New Scientist : Robots have been “taught” a variety of skills, from mapping their surroundings to picking up cumbersome objects, but not, interestingly, to read. Now a roboticist at the University of Oxford, Ingmar Posner, and colleagues are attempting to do just that. Although optical character recognition software already exists, the difficulty is in getting the robot to recognize text and be able to pick out text in a cluttered environment. So, the team developed text-spotting software. The work was presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Taipei, Taiwan, last month.
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