Motion perception is a critical capability determining a variety of aspects of insects' life,
including avoiding predators, foraging, and so forth. A good number of motion detectors …

Motion perception is an essential ability for animals and artificially intelligent systems
interacting effectively, safely with surrounding objects and environments. Biological visual …

Desert ants use the polarization of skylight and a combination of stride and ventral optic flow
integration processes to track the nest and food positions when traveling, achieving …

Biological principles draw attention to service robotics because of similar concepts when
robots operate various tasks. Bioinspired perception is significant for robotic perception …

Decoding the direction of translating objects in front of cluttered moving backgrounds,
accurately and efficiently, is still a challenging problem. In nature, lightweight and low …

Objective. Many computer vision and robotic applications require the implementation of
robust and efficient target-tracking algorithms on a moving platform. However, deployment of …

Highlights•Compound eyes are an endless source of inspiration for developing visual
sensors.•Visual stabilization of robot's flight attitude controlled by artificial ocelli.•Ultraviolet …

Estimating the distance from a surface is a well-known problem for all kinds of applications
involving robots moving in an unknown environment. For flying robots this issue is often …

The crawling robots driven by soft actuators attracted a growing interest in past decade due
to their lightweight, inherent compliance and robustness to unstructured environment. In this …

We report a low-power, bio-inspired mixed-signal 2-D optic flow sensor to realize artificial
compound eyes, which can provide a wide field of view (FoV) sensing capability for …