{"id":193909,"date":"2024-08-02T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/research-team-designs-biomimetic-vision-system-based-on-praying-mantis-eyes"},"modified":"2024-08-02T04:33:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T09:33:00","slug":"research-team-designs-biomimetic-vision-system-based-on-praying-mantis-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/research-team-designs-biomimetic-vision-system-based-on-praying-mantis-eyes","title":{"rendered":"Research team designs biomimetic vision system based on praying mantis eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-team-designs-biomimetic-vision-system-based-on-praying-mantis-eyes3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Self-driving cars occasionally crash because their visual systems can\u2019t always process static or slow-moving objects in 3D space. In that regard, they\u2019re like the monocular vision of many insects, whose compound eyes provide great motion-tracking and a wide field of view but poor depth perception.<\/p>\n<p>Except for the praying mantis.<\/p>\n<p>A praying mantis\u2019s field of view also overlaps between its left and right eyes, creating binocular vision with depth perception in 3D space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-driving cars occasionally crash because their visual systems can\u2019t always process static or slow-moving objects in 3D space. In that regard, they\u2019re like the monocular vision of many insects, whose compound eyes provide great motion-tracking and a wide field of view but poor depth perception. Except for the praying mantis. A praying mantis\u2019s field of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193909","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}