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World’s smallest: Bee-mimicking flying robot uses magnets to aid in search, rescue
A team at UC Berkeley has developed the world’s smallest wireless flying robot, inspired by bumblebees. Weighing just 21 ...
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Record-breaking tiny robot offloads electronics to fly by magnetism
Protruding up from the center of the propeller is a small vertical ring that holds two puck-shaped neodymium permanent magnets – each one is 1 mm wide by 0.5 mm thick. Descendants of the robot ...
Miniature robot takes flight using magnetic fields, no onboard power
"Bees exhibit remarkable aeronautical abilities, such as navigation, hovering, and pollination, that artificial flying robots of similar scale fail to do," explained Liwei Lin, distinguished professor ...