{"id":34709,"date":"2017-02-20T02:04:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T10:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/tiny-3d-printed-lenses-will-help-robots-see-like-eagles"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:12:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:12:26","slug":"tiny-3d-printed-lenses-will-help-robots-see-like-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/tiny-3d-printed-lenses-will-help-robots-see-like-eagles","title":{"rendered":"Tiny 3D-printed lenses will help robots see like eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zP-3pky5s-A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In many ways, the human eye is nothing like a digital camera. Our eyes don\u2019t have a fixed frame rate or resolution; there\u2019s no consistent color reproduction, and we have literal, <em>sizable<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/5804116\/why-every-human-has-a-blind-spot---and-how-to-find-yours\">blind spots<\/a>. But, these optic inconsistencies \u2014 found in every biological eye \u2014 are the product of natural selection, and offer a number of benefits which scientists working in digital vision can take advantage of.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point is a new type of 3D-printed lens created by researchers from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. Each lens is made from plastic and is no bigger than a grain of salt. But, their size is only one aspect of their cleverness. The real innovation here is that the lenses mimic the action of the \u201cfovea,\u201d a key physiological feature of the eyes of humans and eagles, that allows for for speedier image processing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2017\/2\/20\/14667156\/3d-printed-lens-foveated-vision\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2017\/2\/20\/14667156\/3d...ted-vision<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many ways, the human eye is nothing like a digital camera. Our eyes don\u2019t have a fixed frame rate or resolution; there\u2019s no consistent color reproduction, and we have literal, sizable blind spots. But, these optic inconsistencies \u2014 found in every biological eye \u2014 are the product of natural selection, and offer a number [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34709","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58667,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34709\/revisions\/58667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}