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This robot with the fake hand on it has one job; and that job isn't to learn to grasp objects or hold tools. This robot is meant only to find that stripe wearing, child frustrating, bespectacled Waldo from thebooks. Perhaps the scientists will next time devise a robot AI that reads the last chapter of the new novel from your favorite author and tells you what happens.

This bot is called " There's Waldo" and it uses machine learning to find Waldo and point him out. The robot was built by Redpepper and uses a Raspberry Pi along with pyram Python Library. The bot automatically goes over the page of the book when booted up and snaps a picture with its attached camera. That photo is then scanned via OpenCV to look for the faces.

Faces are captured and then shot out to Google's Auto ML Vision service. That service can compare all the faces sent its way to the one face it has been trained to find. In this case, it is looking for our pal Waldo. The system feels confident in a match that is 95% or higher. Once that match is made, the robot hand proceeds over the photograph and points a finger at the matching face.

The bot can find multiple faces if Waldo is hiding in more than one spot. It's been years since I've hunted for Waldo, but I rather thought the point was that there was but one Waldo per page. Machine learning can do all sorts of cool things for humans today from making NCAA Final Four predictions to fixing your grammar.