The technology is still in its infancy but many suggest it could have major implications with self driven cars and other automated robotic services in the future. On a more immediate basis, the tech could be a major part of visual search engines and other image related user services. A recent Google Research blog post said these technological advances are "directly transferable to Google products such as photo search, image search, YouTube, self-driving cars, and any place where it is useful to understand what is in an image as well as where things are.