SRF: Robot vacuum cleaners survey the home

SRF shows how modern robot vacuum cleaners use sensors and mapping to survey the home — contextualised by the Wearable Computing Lab of ETH Zürich, the environment from which antavi emerged.

The piece illustrates how distance, orientation and image sensors combine into a coherent model of the surroundings. The same principle — fusing heterogeneous sensor sources into an intelligible picture — underlies the operating picture with which antavi today supports organisers, medical services and security forces.

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