The lobster's x-ray vision
Chapter 1

Bug eyes and super sensors

Chapter 2

Shadows, lasers, and nocturnal hunters

Chapter 3

Moving without a map

Chapter 4

Cameras that work like brains

YOUR GOAL

Master of How nature taught computers to see

Ch 1 · Bug eyes and super sensors
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007skaty American lobsters navigate murky water using a unique reflective vision system.

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007skaty Biomimetic Compound Eye Camera

This tiny bug-eye camera shoots super fast and forty times brighter in the dark!

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The answers to our hardest problems are often already functioning around us.

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007skaty Houseflies dodge your swatter by perceiving the world at high speeds.

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The lobster's x-ray vision

007skaty Thousands of square tubes help lobsters see in murky water, inspiring NASA's Lobster Eye Imager to capture cosmic

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How houseflies dodge your swatter

007skaty A clean 3D render shows a housefly dodging a swatter with biomimetic vision.

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Bug eyes and super sensors
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007skaty Assemble a multi-lens camera to discover how bug eyes inspire advanced digital sensors.

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Fun Fact

Mantis shrimp vision: Mantis shrimps can see polarized light and circular polarized light, a feat no other known animal on Earth can achieve.

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Glossary
compound eye (noun)
A visual organ in arthropods consisting of numerous independent light-detecting units. In 2022, UCLA bioengineers developed a bionic camera array mimicking this insect visual structure.

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Gossip

Which animal eye superpower would you want most?

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Quiz

How many color receptors does a mantis shrimp have compared to a human's three?

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007skaty The mantis shrimp views the world through a unique color palette.

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What is the scientific name of the African dung beetle known for navigating by polarized light?

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007skaty African dung beetles navigate using the stars and moonlight.

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At roughly how many frames per second does a common housefly perceive visual information?

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What unique optical feature of lobster eyes inspired NASA's Lobster Eye Imager telescope in 1996?

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Which medical condition can be detected early using cameras inspired by the mantis shrimp's polarized vision?

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How do lobster eyes differ fundamentally from human eyes when focusing light?

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Which celestial light source do African dung beetles use to navigate in straight lines?

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Which institution's roboticists designed 50-gram obstacle-dodging drones in 2016 based on fly vision?

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