The ANU team used high-speed cameras to track the wasps eye movements and, from that data, figure out where the insects were looking. "The learning and homing abilities of wasps make them smarter than anything humans know how to build," ANU Professor Jochen Zeil said in a statement. "Roboticists look to replace expensive high resolution cameras and reduce power consumption without losing information that is crucial for visual navigation and our research could help with this." The research should also help biologists better understand the mental mechanisms involved in the insects' navigational skills.