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Re:Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less tha... by atultw on Thursday April 09, 2026 @12:13AM (#47699192)
If you capture a video and SLAM map of the whole space, you could use some VQA model like cosmos reason offline to extract key points and descriptions. Maybe even plan the route offline for the open ended task like “clean kitchen”. Then load the route and all you need is localization and obstacle avoidance
Re:Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less tha... by indraneelpatil on Thursday April 09, 2026 @01:13AM (#47699519)
Aaah interesting, does stuff like this generalise to furniture moving around and different lighting conditions and stuff? Also sounds like if the route gets blocked it just wont move