Nano science the future technology,
Nano science the future new technology,
Scientists at Harvard University have created a flying robot
that can sit on a fingertip. Inspired by the biology of a fly, the robot is
able to perform the agile movements of an insect.
The robots alone aren’t the only breakthrough here. Just
building them required the team, which comprised dozens of people over the
years, to develop new fabrication techniques to build each piece of the robot.
The main body of it is carbon fiber, with small pieces of plastic serving as
“joints” to attach the body to the wing.
Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences (SEAS) put a decade's work into developing the penny-sized robot,
before it took off for the first time.
It took over a decade of work, but robotics researchers at
Harvard have achieved a first: they’ve created robotic insects that are capable
of flying. A paper describing their work is being published in this week’s
Science.
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