{"id":91060,"date":"2019-05-21T10:43:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T17:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/spidey-senses-could-help-autonomous-machines-see-better"},"modified":"2019-05-21T10:43:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T17:43:43","slug":"spidey-senses-could-help-autonomous-machines-see-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/spidey-senses-could-help-autonomous-machines-see-better","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Spidey senses\u2019 could help autonomous machines see better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spidey-senses-could-help-autonomous-machines-see-better2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if drones and self-driving cars had the tingling \u201cspidey senses\u201d of Spider-Man?<\/p>\n<p>They might actually detect and avoid objects better, says Andres Arrieta, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, because they would process <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sensory+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sensory information<\/a> faster.<\/p>\n<p>Better sensing capabilities would make it possible for drones to navigate in dangerous environments and for cars to prevent accidents caused by human error. Current state-of-the-art sensor technology doesn\u2019t process data fast enough\u2014but nature does.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-spidey-autonomous-machines.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if drones and self-driving cars had the tingling \u201cspidey senses\u201d of Spider-Man? They might actually detect and avoid objects better, says Andres Arrieta, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, because they would process sensory information faster. Better sensing capabilities would make it possible for drones to navigate in dangerous environments and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-engineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91060","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=91060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}