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In terms of object recognition, the new camera demonstrated a confidence score of 0.76, which is about twice as high as the existing camera system's confidence score of 0.39.

Today’s TensorFlow object detection API can be found here. Google wants to make it extra easy to play with and implement so the entire kit comes prepackaged with weights and a Jupyter notebook.

API is, simply put, a set of rules and tools to help build software. Google's new TensorFlow object detection API is designed to make it easier to identify objects using images.

The robot uses a prebuilt demo of TensorFlow called “Inception” that can recognize objects. Text to speech software allows the robot to verbally tell you what it sees.