Welcome

This is my initiating post of my blog "Vision & Robotics".

I created this blog as a means to communicate news, advances in the science of machine vision and robotics as well as promote research in these fields.

The interest as well as imagination of people for automatic, self-intelligent machines traces back thousands of years ago. To the best of my knowledge, "Talos" (or equivalently "Τάλως" in greek) was probably the first humanoid robot constructed by God "Ifaistos" to guard the island of Crete according to the hellenic mythology.

The extent to which the records about Talos are true are not so important. What is important is that man's creations first take shape in imagination and in this aspect, we can accept that this first step was made a long ago and that today we have a plethora of tools in our disposal to make the trip from imagination into reality.

Welcome :)