Monday, July 08, 2024

Flying Robot Insect Flies, Crawls, Hovers, and flips over Like a Real Bug

Recommendable!

"Insects have long been an inspiration for robots. The insect world is full of things that are tiny, fully autonomous, highly mobile, energy efficient, multimodal, self-repairing ... insects are both an inspiration and a source of frustration to roboticists because it’s so hard to get robots to have anywhere close to insect capability. ...
JT-fly weighs about 35 grams and has a wingspan of 33 centimeters, using four wings at once to fly at up to 5 meters per second and six legs to scurry at 0.3 m/s. Its 380 milliampere-hour battery powers it for an actually somewhat useful 8-ish minutes of flying and about 60 minutes of crawling. ..."

Flying Robot Insect Flies, Crawls, and Hovers Like a Real Bug - IEEE Spectrum It can take off, hover, land, crawl, and even flip itself over

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