Mantis Cam

Guest: Missael Garcia, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The mantis shrimp has the some of the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom, and if we could see like they do, scientists think we’d have better underwater navigation systems. Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have made a camera to help our much-less capable human eyes see more like the mantis shrimp. It’s called the “mantis cam” and we recently learned about it through an article in “The Atlantic.”