AI Powered Microscopes

I know its not an AI powered microscope but it is a microscope. Imagine this being a hundredth of the size and being powered but AI, a robotic mind.

We have come a long way in 2018 as far as technology goes. We have seen Augmented Realty rise, Virtual Reality to enhance gameplay experience, 3D metal printing, etc. We now have the ability to create tiny AI powered robots with microscopes in order to get a better understanding of what makes up our water. We now have the power to see plankton how they act in water. With these microscope robots a human hair looks like a tree, imagine what we could do with this kind of tech. These robots have the ability to create 3D models of planktons movements which could prove useful in situations like oil spills. The way the microscope works is instead of having a lens for the microscope to focus it is lens less. This keeps the robot from having to keep the plankton in focus. The robot has an imager chip just like the ones in our smart phones. This imager chip instead tracks the shadow the plankton make on it allowing it to “focus” on multiple things at once. These robots load there data in real time so that if any abnormalities should rise then they could be acted upon faster. For example say the plankton start swimming down this could mean that a storm is passing over. They can then predict which way said storm is moving and warn everyone before anyone else can pick up the storm. Now this is still in the works but if we can make these robots functional this could change the world for the better. This could turn into something extraordinary. imagine not only studying plankton but finally being able to discover what’s really at the bottom of the ocean. We could finally discover more than just 5% of the ocean. I’m just thinking outside of the box here but just imagine knowing what monsters could really be in our oceans that we know nothing about.

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