Speaker: Nandan Banerjee, Robotics Software Engineer at iRobot Corp. Title: vSLAM on the Roomba Abstract: SLAM has been around since the 1990s – it wasn’t as powerful as it is now and it required a lot of computational power back then. Powerful and cheap processors, advanced vision and mapping algorithms have enabled robots of today with SLAM technologies using computer vision. But all said, is it possible to put SLAM into household consumer robots to map an entire floor of a house or an apartment? The answer is yes. The latest generation of iRobot Roomba products uses vSLAM...