general vision software for a robot.

Check out the last three issues of SERVO magazine, where they've been
running an excellent series of articles on robotic vision. Last I heard,
the algorithms the author talks about are available in a DLL you can
download and connect up with your program -- VB, C#, C++, etc -- any
environment that can use Windows DLLs. If you're not running Windows,
the source is provided (I think) and you can revise/recompile for your
target OS.

-- Gordon

try the DARPA grand challenge team called dad. They were only useing
two video cameras the first year that the competition was on and were
one of the best placing teams (althought nobody came close to
finishing) I believe that they have added lasers now