microSLAM team says it turns single-camera footage into 3D environments for robot training

The team behind microSLAM says its system uses a single RGB video stream to create interactive 3D environments for training behavioral foundation models. Its announcement describes a use case where footage from someone walking a factory floor helps a robot learn to navigate it. The team argues that worker-worn cameras could make this data cheap to collect, with glasses scaling where camera rigs cannot. It also claims microSLAM holds up against systems using many more cameras and inertial measurement units.