Tiny flying robots have always faced a brutal trade-off between agility and battery life, burning through power just to stay ...
Robots may get their wings with a little help from bats. According to a new study published in the journal Physics of Fluids, researchers observed how bats flap their wings to gain inspiration for ...
In the future, tiny air vehicles may be able to fly through cracks in concrete to search for earthquake victims, explore a contaminated building or conduct surveillance missions for the military. But ...
As an emerging frontier in biomimetic intelligent microsystems, insect-scale flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles (FWMAVs) demonstrate significant application potential due to their exceptional ...
July 24, 2007 Micro air vehicles and Unmanned Aerial Systems have made Gizmag headlines in the past, (Reaper, Taranis, Snark and Camcopter to name just a few), and their success in the US military ...
The US Air Force is creating microdrones that can flap their wings like a bird or insect. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is working with Airion Health LLC and using a 2014 patent to create a ...