[EricH]

Originally Posted by logicalyrandom

Isn't the new camera just visual spectrum? How would we be able to convert that into useful autonomous data?

It isn't too hard. The CMUCam II was able to track a target light that only output on the visual spectrum, if you could program it right and find the weight and space for it. It was quite good at it too. All you have to do is have the target be visually different enough from the background. Do your programming magic and you can do a lot of things just by looking at one green area. (Of course, the CMUCams had a tendency in testing to track anything but the light, for some poor programmers...)

I think these cameras are a little more advanced than the CMUCams.