17 June 2026
A general-purpose artificial-intelligence vision system for use in image-sensing devices has been developed by embedding fundamentals of core computer-vision operations into a light-manipulating planar material called an optical metasurface. A prototype enables accurate, real-time perception and processing across diverse tasks, suggesting that this could be a solution for rapid, low-energy, on-device vision intelligence.
This is a summary of: Peng, J. et al. Optical metasurfaces for general vision processing on the edge. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10635-z (2026).
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