British startup Opteran, a spin–out of the University of Sheffield, has a completely different view of neuromorphic engineering compared to most of the industry. The company has reverse–engineered insect brains to derive new algorithms for collision avoidance and navigation that can be used in robotics. Opteran calls its new approach to AI “natural intelligence,” taking direct biological inspiration for the algorithm portion of the system. This approach is separate to existing computer vision approaches, which mainly use either mainstream AI/deep learning or photogrammetry, a technique that uses 2D photographs to infer information about 3D objects, such as dimensions.