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Harvard researchers have presented video of the world's first controlled flight of an insect-sized winged robot.

A team at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a Micro Unmanned Aerial vehicle that can grab objects on the fly.

Harvard researchers are getting closer to their goal of developing a controllable micro air vehicle called the Robobee.

Scientists are working on creating a computer model of the honey bee's brain, which they hope to use in tiny autonomous flying robots.

Engineers have created a bird-like micro air vehicle that is capable of coming to a perched landing on a human hand.

Boeing has demonstrated swarm technology for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that is similar to the way insects communicate and work together as an intelligent group.

Researchers inspired by the wings of swifts and swftlets have developed an experimental Micro Air Vehicle which combines flapping and gliding flight modes for improved efficiency.

The veritable fly-on-the-wall spying device, deployable in the meeting rooms of enemy leaders, may be one step closer to realization thanks to a new breakthrough in our understanding of how flapping wings work.

Scientists have created an artificial honeybee eye, in hopes of applying bees' aerial navigational skills to micro air vehicles.

A newly-designed mechanism allows micro air vehicles to perch on vertical surfaces, then continue on their way.

AeroVironment has been awarded $4.6 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a new generation small Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) with "perch-and-stare" surveillance capabilities.

A team at the Delft University of Technology have developed a Micro Air Vehicle (MAV), which they claim is the smallest flying, camera carrying ornithopter in the world, measuring 10 cm from wing tip to wing tip.