Boyuan Chen Assistant Professor of Medical Engineering at Duke University

The wealth of information provided by our senses that allows our brain to navigate the world around us is remarkable. Touch, smell, hearing, and a strong sense of balance are crucial to making it through what to us seem like easy environments such as a relaxing hike on a weekend morning. Robots, in contrast, have long relied solely on visual information such as cameras or lidar to move through the world. Outside of Hollywood, multisensory navigation has long remained challenging for machines. A new wrinkle called WildFusion is looking to change that. Boyuan Chen joined Jeff Hamlin to discuss how robots benefit from WildFusion.