Custom BB-SLAM hits 0.02m accuracy with pure visual odometry, no LiDAR or IMU
broodsugar · x · 2026-09-18
The Bracket Bot team showed off BB-SLAM, a fully custom visual SLAM system developed over 6 months: no LiDAR, no IMU, just pure visual odometry producing 0.02m-accurate dense voxel maps. In the demo, a robot navigates using a sparse map previously captured by a phone, with the robot's own dense perception overlaid—enabling deployment in minutes. Built on Auki's collaborative perception and mapping.
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