Work is ongoing in all of the above areas. The projects in the third area use the acquired scene information. Task planning involves qualitative reasoning, testing and error recovery feasibility. Work is ongoing on walking robots and special purpose gripper design. Several of the projects involve interaction with other groups.
Significant attention is paid to the computational performance of the algorithms.
Of interest here is the design of special purpose computer architectures, algorithms and chips. The basic research conducted often addresses specific applications such as anatomical visualization, heart motion analysis, desktop publishing, human face-gesture modeling, visual information systems, industrial inspection, automated machining, and material transfer operations for manufacturing. A variety of image input, output, processing and other devices are connected as peripherals to the network. The laboratory's network is also connected to an elaborate imaging and video-editing facility. For manipulation, the laboratory has several robot arms, including Unimation Puma and Zebra.