RoboBees: Robotic insects make first controlled flight (w/ video)
Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 13:00
in Mathematics & Economics
In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leapt a few inches, hovered for a moment on fragile, flapping wings, and then sped along a preset route through the air.