Column: For physical AI, maps are turning into memory

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by JP/KR/TW: Korea Herald / Taipei Times / DigiTimes at 28 Sept, 01:12 UTC

A robot that can map a factory floor still cannot necessarily find the box it has been asked to move, or remember what it saw on its last visit. For autonomous robots, building the map is increasingly just the beginning. What comes next — searching for objects, navigating to specified…