{"id":149129,"date":"2022-10-30T02:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T07:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/ai-controlled-robotic-laser-can-target-and-kill-cockroaches"},"modified":"2022-10-30T02:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T07:22:19","slug":"ai-controlled-robotic-laser-can-target-and-kill-cockroaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/ai-controlled-robotic-laser-can-target-and-kill-cockroaches","title":{"rendered":"AI-controlled robotic laser can target and kill cockroaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-controlled-robotic-laser-can-target-and-kill-cockroaches2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have created a device that uses machine vision to spot cockroaches and zap them with a laser. They say the method could offer a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative to insecticides.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ildar-rakhmatulin-phd-262a66112\/?locale=en_US\">Ildar Rakhmatulin<\/a> at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK, and his colleagues equipped a laser with two cameras and a small computer running an AI model that can be trained to target certain types of insect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have created a device that uses machine vision to spot cockroaches and zap them with a laser. They say the method could offer a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative to insecticides. Ildar Rakhmatulin at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK, and his colleagues equipped a laser with two cameras and a small computer running [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149129","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}