Robot Vision (Episode 106) | The Robot Doctor

Learn how a robot can sense the world around it using cameras, including how to tell the distance to objects seen by two cameras, in this 14-minute episode. The goal of this video series is to teach the basics of Robotics: the what, why, and how—with examples—and to provide take-home problems to solve.

How do robots see? How do they transform what the cameras sense into meaningful data? In this lesson we will discuss the pinhole camera model for cameras and see how a robot can use that to find the distance to a nearby object using a stereo camera setup.