computer vision
Field of AI concerned with enabling machines to extract meaningful information from images and video, underpinning face recognition, object detection, and robotics.
2 milestones
CIMON Launched to the International Space Station
In June 2018, DLR, Airbus, and IBM launched CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion), a spherical, voice-controlled AI assistant, to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX CRS-15. It was designed to support ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst with procedural tasks and reduce cognitive workload.
Intelligent Room and Affective Computing Agents at MIT AI Laboratory
In 1998, researchers at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, including Rodney Brooks and Cynthia Breazeal, developed the Intelligent Room project alongside work on emotionally expressive robotic agents, combining layered behaviour-based architectures with computer vision to enable a physical space to perceive and respond to human occupants.