Insect-sized robotic bee takes flight Robobee X-wing | Robobee X-wing | Robobee
Robobee X-wing | Robobee | The amazing fly made by scientists | Knowledge News 164
What is robobee?
RoboBee is a tiny robot capable of partially untethered flight, developed by a research robotics team at Harvard University. The culmination of twelve years of research, RoboBee solved two key technical challenges of micro-robotics. Engineers invented a process inspired by pop-up books that allowed them to build on a sub-millimeter scale precisely and efficiently. To achieve flight, they created artificial muscles capable of beating the wings 120 times per second.
The goal of the RoboBee project is to make a fully autonomous swarm of flying robots for applications such as search and rescue, surveillance and artificial pollination.[1] To make this feasible, researchers need to figure out how to get power supply and decision making functions, which are currently supplied to the robot via a tiny tether which is integrated with the main body.
The 3-centimeter wingspan of RoboBee makes it the smallest man-made device modeled on an insect to achieve flight.
Insect-sized robotic bee takes flight Robobee X-wing | Robobee X-wing | Robobee
#Robobee #X-wing
#knowledgeNews164
