A novel bio-inspired camera capable of ultra-high-speed imaging with high sensitivity was developed by mimicking the visual structure of insect eyes. The compound eyes of insects can detect ...

What advantage does the compound eye give them? Basically, insects’ eyes are really good at detecting motion. A lot of them see faster than us, so their eyes and brains process visual information much ...

A small blood-feeding fly found across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas undergoes one of the most dramatic lifestyle switches in the insect world, and according to new research, its eyes change ...

Figure 1. (A) Vision in a fast-eyed insect. Reflected light from swiftly moving objects sequentially stimulates the photoreceptors along the individual optical channels called ommatidia, of which the ...