Let me tell you
Consider what it is you are seeing versus what you are understanding.
Given an image , a vision model can recognize a chair.
However, a robot would require additional information in order to interact with that chair
Are you 2 metres away?
Does it block any way?
is another object behind it?
Does the robot have the ability to navigate around it?
what is the relationship between the chair, the floor , the walls and the rest of the environment?
This is where spatial intelligence begins to get out of the ordinary image recognition
the physical world is relational
Objects are not independent
a chair is in a specific location within a room
The room is located within a structure
the existence of the building at a specific site
and all of those relationships may be significant to a machine that has to navigate or interact with the environment
This is why data is more complex with physical ai than just taking more photos
a picture can show a model what something looks like
spatial data can give an impression of the location of things and the structure of the environment
@vangrid_io is creating on top of this spatial layer of data, starting with the real world captured data
the larger concept is that a machine would require representations of places, rather than representations of objects.
The data problem is shifted from “what am i looking at?” to “where am i, what surrounds me, and how are these things related?” with physical ai.