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Tiny drone

Micro drone on a flower and also a finger.

The flight capability of small insects is something engineers want to harness in micro drones at the scale of a fly. Tiny drones that fly like insects are now becoming feasible due to design evolution and new millimetre-scale manufacturing approaches.

Rights: Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, Photo credit: Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory
Published:17 September 2014Size: 725.41 KB