Camera or eye: Which sees better? - Michael Mauser
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Your eyes don’t always capture the world exactly as a video camera would. But the eyes are remarkably efficient organs, the result of hundreds of millions of years of coevolution with our brains. Michael Mauser outlines the similarities and differences between your eye and a video camera.
Scientists and engineers have learned how to do many things better by studying living organisms. What are some of the features in the human eye that might be used to make more efficient vision systems for robots?
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- Educator Michael Mauser
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- Editor Charly Simpson
- Narrator Addison Anderson
