IMAGINE if you could see the world through the eyes of an insect, able to spot a bite to eat or a potential predator even when it is almost behind you.
That may soon be possible, using an artificial, ultra-wide angle “eye”, about 2.5 millimetres across and developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
The compound eyes of insects such as bees and dragonflies are made up of tens of thousands of tiny separate lenses, called ommatidia. These all point in different directions to give the insect a wide field of vision. Inspired by these eyes, Luke Lee…
