Harvard researchers have successfully designed, manufactured and flown a tiny fly‐inspired aerial robot. The demonstration of the first controlled flight of an insect‐sized robot is the culmination of more than a decade’s work, led by researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard. Inspired by the biology of a fly, with sub millimeter‐scale anatomy and two wafer‐thin wings that flap almost invisibly, 120 times per second, the tiny device not only represents the absolute cutting edge of micro‐manufacturing and control systems.

 

Source: Deccan Herald

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