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March 22, 2011

3-D-Printed Ornithopter Insect Hovers, Flapping Delicate Wings

by Laura Domela

Roboticists at Cornell University utilized 3D printing technology to develop a flapping-wing aircraft, or ornithopter, that weighs just 3.89 grams and can hover for 85 seconds.

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Image via Cornell Computational Synthesis Laboratory

 

Watch it fly here:

via Discovery News and Popular Science

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