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You didn’t think 2020 couldn’t be weirder, did you? If the idea of ​​tiny, insect-mounted steerable cameras sounds like something out of a dystopian nightmare, it’s because, well, it probably is. A team of researchers from the University of Washington (UW) has developed lightweight, low-resolution cameras that can be mounted …

Beetlecam To see first-hand the daily life of the insects, the scientists built a small camera that they can mount on a beetle with a Lilliputian backpack. The Beetlecam (our name, not yours) comes from the University of Washington’s computer science department, which was commissioned to design a camera light …