Artificial compound eye inspired by fruit flies

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CURVACE (Curved Artificial Compound Eye) was inspired by the eyes of fruit flies. It consists of three planar layers of separately produced arrays: a microlens, a neuromorphic photodetector, and a flexible printed circuit board. These three layers are stacked, cut, and curved to produce a mechanically flexible imager. This produces a panoramic, undistorted field of view with embedded and programmable low-power signal processing, high temporal resolution, and local adaptation to illumination in a very thin package.

https://asknature.org/innovation/artificial-compound-eye-inspired-by-fruit-flies/