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August 28, 2020

Pinacate beetle wearing tiny wireless camera

A pinacate beetle wears a tiny wireless, steerable camera developed by researchers at the University of Washington.

[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grants CNS 1812554 and CNS 1823148.]

Learn more about this research in the University of Washington news story A GoPro for beetles: Researchers create a robotic camera backpack for insects. (Date image taken: June 23, 2020; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Aug. 28, 2020)

Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington


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