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To map the 3D environment of a desk or any tabletop, Clark and his colleagues used a Microsoft Kinect that looks down at the desk from above.
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Most mobile robots do this using a technique called SLAM (simultaneous localisation and mapping), whereby they build up a map of their unknown environment, using various sensors, whilst keeping track of their current position at the same time.
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The Environment Agency has published a live floods map.
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The Environment Agency has produced a live flood warnings map to alert people to potential problems in their areas.
BBC: Coventry & Warwickshire
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Most strikingly, Mr Gore is interested in science: his famous concern for the chemical balance of environment is matched by similar passions for the Internet, the genome map, new research on learning.
ECONOMIST: 2001: A Gore Odyssey
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Robert Nash, Glaxo's director of U.S. environment health and safety, previously worked in an enclosed office, decorated with photos and a map of the North Carolina coastline.
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