‘GoPro’ for beetles: engineers create a wireless robotic camera that can ride atop an insect and send images back to a smartphone
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Engineers from the University of Washington have created the first wireless, steerable camera small enough to ride aboard a live insect.
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The camera can stream video to a smartphone at 1 to 5 frames per second and can record images for six hours or more.
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The system, which weighs about one-tenth the weight of a playing card, allows for new applications, such as precision agriculture and industrial IoT.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/15/wireless-camera-can-ride-atop-a-beetle-and-end-images-to-smartphone.html