i have a rare small part of my state of mind where i can work on designing a robot to find misplaced objects!
that's really nice. such a robot would help so much when one dissociates and loses things mindlessly when stressed. i don't expect to make anything but it's so gratifying to consider! so. basically we'd make sure that the robot knew where absolutely everything is at all times, to be the complete opposite of somebody's tendency to lose things. it would be like a rugged safe that stores everything's location. so it would have a lot of ways of finding things, ideally, and would spend its time making sure it constantly knew where eveyrthing was, maybe. but to start off we'd probably inplement object tracking. this is where a time sequence of X,Y coordinates for an object are extracted from video (roughly). this would be a good place to start. To clarify, the idea is a _robot to help people who have a severe mental disorder stimulating losing their objects_. The robot keeps track of your objects.
I was thinking, what kind of object tracking would be good here? I don't know much about object tracking but I can imagine there are different kinds. Basically I think of heuristics and machine learning models (sadly) (and those are heuristics too!) but there's a lot more. And I was guessing, this is going to need to identify objects too. So some kind of object tracking that is interconnected with object identification sounds better. It's also helpful if it can learn to track new objects. Quite helpful. So I imagine there are a lot of approaches to object identification. I don't know. But I'm guessing that we'd have a _model of each object (owner's possession)_ that it would be tasked to track. So something where tracking the object and ... yeah whew mind getting tired but that reduces the bad things too