Bug eyes and bat sonar: ... into autonomous vehicles or medical imaging tools with sensing capabilities far beyond what is considered state of the art today. ... much like our human eyes would.

Humans capture pictures using the two lenses of our relatively flat eyes, while a top-of-the-line SLR camera has just one flat lens. The new camera -- a rounded half bubble, similar to a bulging ...

In 1912, Monet’s exalted eyes came under threat when he began developing cataracts; a medical consultation found that the lenses of his eyes were clouding, blocking the light as it passed through.

In explaining how butterfly eyes work, Professor Ron Rutowski tells us that, at least in the case of butterflies he has studied, they have far worse. If humans consider perfect vision to be 20/20 ...

Scientists have built a digital camera inspired by the compound eyes of insects such as bees and flies. The camera's hemispherical array of 180 microlenses give it a 160˚ field of view and the ...

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 ...