{"id":110897,"date":"2020-08-05T09:31:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/a-gopro-for-beetles-researchers-create-a-robotic-camera-backpack-for-insects"},"modified":"2020-08-05T09:31:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:31:44","slug":"a-gopro-for-beetles-researchers-create-a-robotic-camera-backpack-for-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/a-gopro-for-beetles-researchers-create-a-robotic-camera-backpack-for-insects","title":{"rendered":"A GoPro for beetles: Researchers create a robotic camera backpack for insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-gopro-for-beetles-researchers-create-a-robotic-camera-backpack-for-insects2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the movie \u201cAnt-Man,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2014about one-tenth the weight of a playing card\u2014the team mounted it on top of live beetles and insect-sized robots.<\/p>\n<p>The results will be published July 15 in Science Robotics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the movie \u201cAnt-Man,\u201d 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. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}