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Dragonfly Drone

Have you ever been eye to eye with a dragonfly? Insect eyes look very different from your eyes. And they see differently, too. In some ways, insects can’t see as well as we can. But in other ways they can see much better. Now, roboticists are building insect-eye cameras to help drones fly around things without running into them, just like dragonflies do.

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