Applies to: Mesmer Desktop Gen 2 (product code MD2) only. For Gen 3, see Robot perception — Desktop Gen 3.
Mesmer Desktop Gen 2 robots include integrated cameras and microphones for two-way audio-visual interaction (see the Gen 2 manual).
The robot uses its cameras to detect faces nearby. That information is used to:
You do not need to configure this for normal operation — it runs as part of the robot’s behaviour stack.
Open Sensors after connecting to your robot.
Screenshots and step-by-step UI detail are on the Sensors page.
Open Viz to see the robot’s 3D world view and left-eye camera feed.
Screenshots are on the Viz page.
Technical detail on the Mediapipe face-detection pipeline is in Human Behaviour — Perception (developer guide). Look-at behaviour using detected faces is described in Look At.