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Harvard researchers have presented video of the world's first controlled flight of an insect-sized winged robot.
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A team at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a Micro Unmanned Aerial vehicle that can grab objects on the fly.
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Harvard researchers are getting closer to their goal of developing a controllable micro air vehicle called the Robobee.
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Scientists are working on creating a computer model of the honey bee's brain, which they hope to use in tiny autonomous flying robots.
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Engineers have created a bird-like micro air vehicle that is capable of coming to a perched landing on a human hand.
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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.
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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.
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ScienceThe 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.
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Scientists have created an artificial honeybee eye, in hopes of applying bees' aerial navigational skills to micro air vehicles.
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A newly-designed mechanism allows micro air vehicles to perch on vertical surfaces, then continue on their way.
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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.
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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.