This particular project for both, known as Homework Help, picked up the top gong at this year’s PennApps, which happens to be one of the largest student hackathons in the world, where it was held at the prestigious University of Pennsylvania. Just how does Homework Help perform such a “miracle”?
Well, it will rely on a camera that will boast computer vision in order to identify simple math problems, before it moves to solves them, while writing out the answer with a pen in a mechanical manner. It is capable of measuring the distances between characters in order to make sure whether they are part of the same number, while there is some space beneath them which will allow it to figure out just where the answer should be written. Forget about it solving complex math problems at this point in time, as it does only simple addition problems. Perhaps the future might see a more impressive repertoire.