The compound eyes of the humble fruit fly are a marvel of nature. They are wide-angle and can process visual information ...

In this episode of Big Ideas from the team behind Deep Look, Niba explores how insects actually see the world — from the ...

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have engineered a breakthrough in robotic vision.

The research paper was featured as the cover article in Science Robotics (Volume 9, Issue 90) in May 2024. The cover shows a fusion of an image composite of a robber fly’s eye on the left and an ...

Cameras inspired by the compound eyes of insects enable an extremely wide field of view without expensive lenses, potentially offering cheap, simple and lightweight visual sensors for navigation or ...

An interdisciplinary team of computer scientists and engineers, led by John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has succeeded in building the first digital cameras that mimic the ...

The controlling factor that determines whether flies develop compound eyes with square or hexagonal elements has been determined. Tiling patterns in which the same shape is repeated without gaps are ...

Nature boasts mesmerizing creatures with extraordinary eyes, offering unique survival advantages. From stalk-eyed flies with ...

The Subaru Telescope in Hawai‘i is adding a new instrument to its arsenal, one that will observe the cosmos through a compound eye. The compound eye will allow Subaru to observe about 2,400 objects in ...