Start Your Dream Career Today (Left)

Meet The World's Smallest Flying Robot: The RoboBee

Description :

Hello THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY lovers! 😍👍

As you already know, I'm working a lot these days and this is something that takes a lot of my personal time. It keeps me away from my Blog, but I'm still active on social media.

Ok let's see today's topic. A team of Science folks came up with something interesting that really toke our attention. Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) put a decade's work into developing the penny-sized robot, before it took off for the first time.

Meet The World's Smallest Flying Robot: The RoboBee

They have created a robot the size of a fly that makes uses of smart composite materials and piezoelectric technology performing the agile manoeuvres of an insect. RoboBee, which is built from carbon fiber, weighs a fraction of a gram and has super-fast electric "muscles" to power its wings that can even sit on a fingertip.

Meet The World's Smallest Flying Robot: The RoboBee

A recent paper lays out the progress of the robot’s fabrication and flight, but two major hurdles remain in the RoboBee’s flightpath. One hurdle is how to power the bee and the other is how to give it a digital brain small enough to keep the bee in flight. 

In the video below (Video courtesy of Kevin Ma and Pakpong Chirarattananon) demonstrating RoboBee’s maneuvering capabilities, you can see that the current prototypes are still connected to computers and power sources. Scientists hope to cut the cord as the project develops, until they can create entirely autonomous colonies of these.


It’s simultaneously frightening and exciting. Guess what military will do with it! 😮 

SIMILAR POSTS: 



Kindly share this topic with your friends and subscribe on our Newsletter, for straight updates to your email. 

(P.S: Sometimes, we miss out some really cool stuff that probably worth a review, so if you have some great content to share with us or a product that you are working on, you can fill out this form and get in touch with the people here. Do not hesitate to contact us for a super fast 24 hours support.) 

*by andreascy*

🦾 Stay Motivated

🏅 Featured on Product Hunt