A new 3D camera inspired by jumping spiders' eyes may well be found in the next generation of battery-operated wearable tech, ...
Northwestern engineers have unveiled an energy-efficient camera called SpiderCam that estimates depth in the same way that ...
A new ultra-efficient 3D camera inspired by jumping spiders could reshape how drones, robots and wearables see.
Called SpiderCam, the new device senses depth the same way that jumping spiders judge distances before making a high precision hop. The camera produces real-time 3D maps while consuming less than a ...
Jumping spiders—one of the largest spider families—get their name from the extraordinary jumps they make to hunt prey, to navigate and also to evade predators. Male jumping spiders also jump to escape ...
Most 3D cameras estimate depth either by comparing images from multiple viewpoints or by projecting and measuring light—approaches that can require substantial computational power, expensive hardware, ...