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Published online 27 April 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060424-10
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Artificial eye built to spy all
Self-building insect eyes could be used in cameras for wide-angle vision.
Cameras and robots might enjoy the all-round view that insects get with their multifaceted eye, thanks to a tiny artificial compound eye devised by Luke Lee and colleagues at the University of California in Berkeley.
Their false eye consists of a plastic hemisphere about 2.
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