The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History protects 148 million objects, but 99% of them remain hidden from the public in safe areas known as collections. Behind the scenes, these treasures solve Real-World problems, such as helping aircraft to prevent birds and to identify invasive species that threaten agriculture. Now the museum assumes one of the most ambitious projects ever: digitizing the entire collection and compiling a DNA library of any well -known complex life form. We went behind the scenes to see how breakthroughs in AI, high resolution and robotics imaging make it possible.
