Does the human eye have anything special in that regard that couldn't be emulated by two side-by-side cameras? As far as i know, depth perception is mostly an awesome feature of our brain (software), not of our eyes (hardware).
Modern photographic lenses tend to contain a large number of lenses in series, a few of which often have an exotic property like being apochromatic, aspheric, or made of fluorite, but such well-corrected lenses may be counter-productive for machine vision. Phase detection in a DSLR relies on separate collection sites like stereo vision, but autofocus still hunts under bad conditions.