<p>Have you read about sophisticated hunter insects called praying mantis in textbooks? Now, see them hunting with the world's tiniest 3D glasses.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In a bid to see if the insects can be tricked by 3D images the way humans are, a team from Newcastle University led by vision scientist Jenny Read outfitted praying mantises with a little pair of 3D glasses.<br /><br />"This could open up all kinds of possibilities to create much simpler algorithms for programming 3D vision into robots," Vivek Nityananda, a neuroscience research associate with Newcastle University was quoted as saying.<br /><br />Praying mantises have stereoscopic vision unlike most invertebrates.<br /><br />In lab experiments, the researchers attached tiny 3D glasses to an insect using beeswax.They monitored the insect in front of a computer that displayed 3D images.<br /><br />"If the researchers can fool praying mantises into making errors in judgment about depth, it will prove that they actually are judging 3D," Nityananda noted in a University press release.</p>
<p>Have you read about sophisticated hunter insects called praying mantis in textbooks? Now, see them hunting with the world's tiniest 3D glasses.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In a bid to see if the insects can be tricked by 3D images the way humans are, a team from Newcastle University led by vision scientist Jenny Read outfitted praying mantises with a little pair of 3D glasses.<br /><br />"This could open up all kinds of possibilities to create much simpler algorithms for programming 3D vision into robots," Vivek Nityananda, a neuroscience research associate with Newcastle University was quoted as saying.<br /><br />Praying mantises have stereoscopic vision unlike most invertebrates.<br /><br />In lab experiments, the researchers attached tiny 3D glasses to an insect using beeswax.They monitored the insect in front of a computer that displayed 3D images.<br /><br />"If the researchers can fool praying mantises into making errors in judgment about depth, it will prove that they actually are judging 3D," Nityananda noted in a University press release.</p>