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World’s smallest: Bee-mimicking flying robot uses magnets to aid in search, rescue
A team at UC Berkeley has developed the world’s smallest wireless flying robot, inspired by bumblebees. Weighing just 21 ...
Miniature robot takes flight using magnetic fields, no onboard power
"Bees exhibit remarkable aeronautical abilities, such as navigation, hovering, and pollination, that artificial flying robots of similar scale fail to do," explained Liwei Lin, distinguished professor ...
IEEE Spectrum on MSN7d
The Tiniest Flying Robot Soars Thanks to Magnets
A new prototype is laying claim to the title of smallest, lightest untethered flying robot. At less than a centimeter in ...
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Nano Sumo Robot Takes On All Comers
While most Sumo-style robots are fairly sizable, there is a subsection of the Sumo robot movement that focuses on making small robots. Really small robots. [Patrick] wrote in to share his latest ...
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Berkeley engineers create world's smallest wireless flying robot, fits between your fingertips
Berkeley engineers create the world's smallest wireless flying robot, with the bumblebee-inspired robot less than 1cm in ...
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UC Berkeley engineers create world’s smallest wireless flying robot
UC Berkeley engineers have created the world’s smallest wireless flying robot, which is capable of changing directions ...
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Image of the Day: Flying Fish Robot
Researchers in the Aerial Robotics Lab at Imperial College London have developed a bio-inspired robot that can propel itself out of water. Led by Mirko Kovac, the team published a study in Science ...