The autonomy of robots leverages visual sensing. However most robots integrate existing cameras that were not designed for robotic purposes but to produce images looking good for humans, or video games. As a result, these cameras produce often too much data to process in real-time for achieving robotic tasks or even fail to provide useful images in situations of high dynamic range, heterogeneous densities of information or high speed. This presentation will provide an overview of novel camera design works in the hardware of their optical parts, involving multiple lenses and filters, original deformable mirrors toward their integration with novel modalities such as with event cameras, for robot perception-based control.