We're not done with point clouds

Why don’t they marry the visual categorisation of objects with a sparse predefined model to simplify?

Point clouds seem like a noisy layer to use and better as verification.

pj_mukh 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The title implies that there are collision check systems that don’t use point clouds (or that robotics has moved onto something else)? Is that true or did the author just mean personally?

	▲	vanderZwan 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I think they meant it in the sense of coming back to the topic yet again after talking about it fairly exhaustively in an earlier blog post.

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1wd 29 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Did spatial hashing fall out of favor? Seemed similar in ~2003.

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fisian 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Posts like these really highlight how much there to think about in robotics. Below the surface of what immediately comes to mind there is just an abundance of topics to address to get an actually well working robot.

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bsenftner 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This reminds me of writing physics in game engines.