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[Heathen Saint]

Well, the catastrophe that has been 2020 aside..Here's something cool..

Get ready for an entire new genre of streaming...bugvision!

A GoPro for beetles: Researchers create a robotic camera backpack for insects

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a tiny wireless steerable camera that can ride aboard an insect or an insect-sized robot.

www.washington.edu

In the movie “Ant-Man,” the title character can shrink in size and travel by soaring on the back of an insect. Now researchers at the University of Washington have developed a tiny wireless steerable camera that can also ride aboard an insect, giving everyone a chance to see an Ant-Man view of the world.

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The camera, which streams video to a smartphone at 1 to 5 frames per second, sits on a mechanical arm that can pivot 60 degrees. This allows a viewer to capture a high-resolution, panoramic shot or track a moving object while expending a minimal amount of energy. To demonstrate the versatility of this system, which weighs about 250 milligrams — about one-tenth the weight of a playing card — the team mounted it on top of live beetles and insect-sized robots.

The results were published July 15 in Science Robotics.

“We have created a low-power, low-weight, wireless camera system that can capture a first-person view of what’s happening from an actual live insect or create vision for small robots,” said senior author Shyam Gollakota, a UW associate professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. “Vision is so important for communication and for navigation, but it’s extremely challenging to do it at such a small scale. As a result, prior to our work, wireless vision has not been possible for small robots or insects.”

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

This makes me wish I still did shrooms

 

[Heathen Saint]

This makes me wish I still did shrooms

 

[nolaspe]

This makes me wish I still did shrooms

With or without Jesus?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

With or without Jesus?

If he brings his own shrooms I’m cool
Especially if he wants to do the loaves and fishes thing

 

[superchuck500]

If he brings his own shrooms I’m cool
Especially if he wants to do the loaves and fishes thing

Sometimes having a bunch more shrooms isn’t helpful.

 

[zeetes]

beetles are terrible. this video proves it.

i haven't had a good year to live since 2012. 2020 sucks. that said, doesn't even come close to the worst year ever.

there is always worse than this bullshirt.

wear a mask and call it a day. fork the beetles.

there is zero reason to not to.

oh, and fork the overrated beetles.

 

[bclemms]

Sometimes having a bunch more shrooms isn’t helpful.

A problem I have heard about but never experienced.

 

[Zack Lee]

These poor beetles are going to be executed as spies. RIP little Ringo.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Sometimes having a bunch more shrooms isn’t helpful.

Oh, they’re for the beetles

 

[UndeadSnoopy]

oh, and fork the overrated beetles.

 

[zeetes]

terrible. the monkeys were better.

 

[UndeadSnoopy]

terrible. the monkeys were better.

 

[soupcan dan]

never were the same after paul died.

 

[UndeadSnoopy]

This makes me wish I still did shrooms

PM me.