MAV

The Micro Aerial Vehicle Laboratory at the TU Delft faculty of Aerospace Engineering is claiming to have created the of the world's smallest autopilot module. The team's goal is to eventually create MAVs Micro Aerial Vehicles small enough to fit into your pocket.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Air Force has given Wei Shyy, chair of the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Michigan, grants totaling more that $1 million a year to research small flapping-wing UAVs.

The United States Air Force BATMAV (Battlefield Air Targeting Micro Air Vehicle) program with AeroVironment's Wasp III Micro Air Vehicle has received approval for Full Rate Production. The Wasp is a portable, 16 inch (38 cm) long, rugged unmanned aerial platform designed for front-line reconnaissanc