Scientists in Japan have developed a groundbreaking AI synapse that recognizes colors nearly as well as the human eye, promising great advances in energy-efficient visual recognition for smartphones, drones, and autonomous vehicles.

The research team at the Tokyo University of Science developed the self-powered optoelectronic device, which operates entirely on light, to address the high power, storage and computational demands of current machine vision systems.

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