How can a drone earn from one spot to another in a forest,without colliding with any trees? How can a robot pick up a bolt and insert it into a casing, without smashing into any of the other moving objects in a crowded factory? Our ability to find a solution to this problem – which is called motion planning – will be critical to creating a new generation of robots that, and unlike the industrial robots of today,can act in a world that has not been meticulously pre-prepared for them.
Source: phys.org