Flies’ eyes could enhance robot vision

May 12, 2008 | Source: PhysOrg.com

Researchers from the Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California, and the University of Wyoming have developed a fiber optic sensor inspired by the hyperacuity of the compound eye of the common housefly.


(D. Fischer)

Machines such as unmanned vehicles, guided missiles, and high-speed industrial inspection robots might take advantage of this ability to locate tiny, moving objects with high precision.