Herself’s Artificial Intelligence

Science Daily — Engineers at Purdue University are developing robots able to make “educated guesses” about what lies ahead as they traverse unfamiliar surroundings, reducing the amount of time it takes to successfully navigate those environments.The method works by using a new software algorithm that enables a robot to create partial maps as it travels through an environment for the first time. The robot refers to this partial map to predict what lies ahead. . . .

Guessing Robots Predict Their Environments, Navigate Better

More information:
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
PDF of slide show ‘Introduction to SLAM’