RoboBee X Wing Tiny Flying Insect Robot Has Four Wings and Weighs under a Gram.

RoboBee X Wing Tiny Flying Insect Robot Has Four Wings and Weighs under a Gram.
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RoboBee X-Wing

Tiny flying insect robot has four wings and weighs under a gram.

Harvard's RoboBee X-Wing can fly under its own power.

Harvard’s tiny, insect-inspired RoboBee X-Wing can fly using solar power.

It's a solar-powered version with four wings instead of two like previous RoboBees had.
Harvard's RoboBee X-Wing Tiny flying insect robot has four wings and weighs under a gram, Can Fly Using Solar Power.

A solar-powered winged robot has become the lightest machine capable of flying without being attached to a power source.

Weighing just 259 milligrams, the insect-inspired RoboBee X-Wing has four wings that flap 170 times per second. It has a wingspan of 3.5 centimetres and stands 6.5 centimetres high.

The flying robot was developed by Noah Jafferis and his colleagues at Harvard University.

Its wings are controlled by two muscle-like plates that contract when voltage passes through them. They are powered by six tiny solar cells weighing 10 milligrams each, which are located above the wings so as not to interfere with flight.

The insect robot’s wings begin flapping when exposed to light. Currently, it has only been tested in the lab, where it is powered by a combination of halogen and LED lighting.

Limited by the positioning of the artificial lighting, the robot normally flies for around half a second before it leaves the field of light. The robot currently requires the equivalent of three times the intensity of natural sunlight, so isn’t yet able to fly outside.

The robot could one day be used for monitoring the environment or manoeuvring through small spaces.

“It’s very light for its size. If you need to land on a leaf, you could, whereas a commercial quadcopter would be too heavy to do that.”

In future versions, the team hopes to enable the robot to fly in sunlight and incorporate sensing mechanisms. “It can then really control what it’s doing when it’s flying around.

[mr.chandler]

As much as it cost if you were trying to see if your wife is cheating, then all of a sudden the bird came by and took it away to go feed its young

[spiritchild]

Yeah, okay. Like you haven’t already created nanobots that look exactly like the thumbnail you showed for the video.

[seyoumalemseged]

I alwas appreciate any technology when they doing it useful for human beings that means not harmful to anyone living in this planet.

[akashdabral]

How to make robobee x wing power actuator

[rogerpatrick]

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[rushdHBTS]

17-Dec 20
Robot Bee. ....RoboBee X
Dreams of Artificial Pollination Started?

[heaven]

Wow Nice Work, they could save humanity one Day or even kill African bees ! Haha they could even kill a person.sould even be a advisor !

[NeuralDagger]

But untill it can function fully untethered with its own power supply, and the radio components to control it, really not that impressed,

[Angela-pocr]

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