Rolf Mueller, professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, has drawn inspiration from bats to design and develop a new bio-inspired technology that can determine the origin location of a sound. Unlike previous approaches, which are often based on the human ear, Mueller looked at a bat’s ear to gain the […]

Combining hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging provides a powerful sensing modality with broad applications from astronomy to biology. Existing methods rely on temporal data acquisition or snapshot imaging of spatially separated detectors. These approaches incur fundamental artifacts that degrade imaging performance. To overcome these limitations, we present a stomatopod-inspired sensor capable of […]