A group of experts at iniLabs, a company in Switzerland, has been working on lesson from biology. The aim, reportedly, is to reach an efficient camera that could see like the human retina.

The retina of the eye is really a powerful tool. It is being said that the same has the ability to sort through huge data. The retina works merely on a part of the power, which is needed in all by a computer and conventional digital camera.

The new camera has been dubbed the Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS), which, according to the team, responds to a given scene's changes only. The same meant that the camera is working akin to the individual neurons there in the eyes.

It is the belief of the team that the approach wipes out large amounts of surplus data. Also, the same could prove highly helpful in a number of fields, comprising robotics, surveillance and microscopy.

Chief scientific officer, Tobi Delbruck, said that humans' eyes were nothing, but digital cameras, which are somewhat different.

"What we're talking about-the cameras sending information when something changes-is actually a very central theme to how the brain works, or at least how neuroscientists think it works", said computer scientist, Nabil Imam.