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Thursday, February 16th, 2012

New Visual Navigation System Ditches Satellites for Cameras

Research into making Global Positioning Systems (GPS) more reliable and accurate has turned to camera technology and mathematical algorithms that its creator says will make navigation cheaper and simpler. The research is being done by Dr. Michael...