Flying insects are a pain this time of year, but Harvard researchers couldn’t be happier about the bug buzzing around their lab. A study published in Science today announced the world’s first controlled flight of an insect-size robot, the result of a decade-long project by the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.
Modeled after a housefly, the tiny robot weighs less than a tenth of a gram and is about half the size of a paperclip. Its two delicate wings can flap independently at up to 120 times per second. At that speed they’re barely even visible to the human eye.
via Popular Mechanics
May 7, 2013
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