MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee

Aeronautical and astronautical engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinspiration, Drones, Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), Electronics, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Machine Learning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, National Science Foundation (NSF), Research, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Robotics, School of Engineering

In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Like real insects, these robots could flit through tight spaces larger robots can’t reach, while simultaneously dodging stationary obstacles and pieces of falling rubble.So far, aerial microrobots have only been able […]

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