Due to the limitation of traditional manufacturing technology,most bionic compou nd eyes employ planar image sensor, which are different from the curved structure of insect compound eyes.It limit s the optical performance and the field of view (FOV).In this paper,a curved 2×8single layered compound eye system using opt ical freeform surface is designed and manufactured, which is close to the structure of insect compound eye.We assemble 161/3inch CCD sensors as a curved 2×8image sensor array. And a curved 2×8single layered micro lens array is designed and manufactured. All the lenses are perpendicular to the corresponding CCD sensor,which can eliminate the off-axis aberration.The application of optic al freeform surface and aspheric surface guarantees the imaging quality of the single layered lens.And the single layered lens array red uces the difficulty of manufacturing and assembling of compound eye system.The system achieves image capture in the FOV of 180°×75° with no gap.Compared with fisheye lens,this system has lower distortion and higher resolution.The experiment results verify the availability of this system.