In movies we are often shown a scene from a robot’s-eye view, with the help of cinematic conventions like fish-eye distortion or crosshairs. That is fine for us, the audience, who already have functioning eyes and brains. But it is no help to the robot’s innards. The robot does not house an audience of little people—homunculi—gazing at the picture and telling the robot what they are seeing. If you could see the world through a robot’s eyes, it would look not like a movie picture decorated with crosshairs but something like this:
–Things look alike through a robot’s eyes
