How Will Robots See in 2018? [exclusive video]

BY Mark Borden | June 11, 2009

The team at Imaginary Forces used a combination of military and NASA technology to answer that question for the movie 'Terminator Salvation.' Karin Fong shows us how Terminator's "Machine Vision" was created in this exclusive video.

In an exclusive video created for Fast Company, Karin Fong (number 88 on our Most Creative People list) and her team at Imaginary Forces put together a behind the scenes look at the creation of the "Machine Vision" used in the film Terminator Salvation.
To render believable images of how a robot might see in the year 2018,
a combination of military and NASA technology was employed, including a
relative of the Mars Rover's optical system called the Bumblebee.

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