"Seeing" machines and "intelligent" robots have been the focus of research conducted by the Institute of Measurement Science since 1977. Our goal is to gain a basic understanding of vision, autonomy and intelligence of technical systems, and to construct seeing intelligent robots. These should be able to operate robustly and at an acceptable speed in the real world, to survive in a dynamically changing natural environment, and to perform autonomously a wide variety of tasks. In this paper we report.
