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PRISM

Mantis shrimpOdontodactylus scyllarus

Multispectral and polarization perception research for degraded environments.

(01) — Dossier

Kingdom
INSTINCT — The Intelligence Kingdom

Embodied AI · perception · learning · communication · manipulation

Readiness

○ Research

Higher-risk program; key advantages remain experimental. A MALIA planning category, not a formal TRL.

Status

Proposed concept

PRISM is under study — it is not manufactured, fielded or validated.

(02) — Biological principle

Twelve-channel vision seeing spectra and polarization we cannot.

What the organism solved.

(03) — Engineering ambition

Multispectral and polarization perception research for degraded environments.

The machine it points toward — an ambition, not a promise.

(04) — Research questions

  1. Q01

    What produces the effect — twelve-channel vision seeing spectra and polarization we cannot — and which part of the mechanism is essential rather than incidental to the biology?

  2. Q02

    What is the simplest machine that could deliver multispectral and polarization perception research for degraded environments without replicating the organism wholesale?

  3. Q03

    What evidence would falsify the approach — under which conditions is PRISM worse than the conventional alternative, and how early could that be shown?

Programs begin as questions, not specifications. GENOME indexes the biological mechanism; INSTINCT tests what survives the move into a machine.

(05) — Related species

Also in INSTINCT.

9 other programs in the INSTINCT kingdom.