Robotic Cameras Get Human-Like Eye Muscle - 6:30 AM Imagine
this: Every time you wanted to focus on something in your
peripheral vision, you had to turn your whole head and torso
instead of just moving your eyes. It would be a pain in the ass,
yet it’s what robots that use cameras have had to do up until
now. Researchers at Georgia Tech say they’ve changed that with a
muscle-like device that allows cameras to mimic the human eye’s
independent movement. While the work is still in the lab, lead
researcher Joshua Schultz said if any of the potential partners
who have approached his adviser Dr. Jun Ueda were to commit, the
technology could be on the market in about a year. The
implications are vast, including safer and more effective MRI-
guided surgery, robotic rehabilitation for eye damage and more
advanced military and surveillance applications. By using
electric pulses to move muscle-like components, Schultz and Ueda
have found a way around the slow, loud and inefficient servo
motors being used in most robotic