Researchers create the first artificial vision system for both land and water - MIT News

Inspired by a fiddler crab eye, scientists developed an amphibious artificial vision system with a panoramic visual field. It is the first artificial vision system for both land and water.

Giving our hardware sight has empowered a host of applications in self-driving cars, object detection, and crop monitoring. But unlike animals, synthetic vision systems cant simply evolve under natur… [+4542 chars]

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