This is RoboBee, and it may be the world’s tiniest robot. Inspired by the anatomy of aviation-inclined insects like bees and flies, it’s just a bit larger than a human fingertip. And after years of work, RoboBee has joined its organic inspirations in flight. The minuscule machine designed by researchers at Harvard took to the air for the first time last year, but the footage of its flight is only available this week, now that the results have been published in the latest issue of the journal Science.
via Geekosystem
