February 10, 2010
Robotic Fly Takes Off
There are already many flying robots that exist but this robotic fly is the first at such a small scale.
Enthused by a true fly, Prof. Wood and his team from Harvard University developed a 60 milligram robot with a three-centimeter wingspan that is able to achieve the flight performance of a real fly.
This robot-fly can be used for intelligence applications and for military. And for this reason, U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is supporting this project. And also, this robot-fly can be use in detecting for chemical and radiological substances that are hazardous to the environment.
Even though the making of this micro robotic flying insect is such a great achievement, there are still many difficulties needed to be resolve before producing a fully autonomous robot-fly.
This robotic-fly can only move up and down. So, the developers are making way for this to move in any direction. They plan to apply a flight controller to the robot for it to move in different directions. And also a sensor and a power source is to be added to create a fully functioning type of robot-fly.
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Written by: John
Filed Under: Robot Programming, Robotics, Robotics Sensors
Tags: Advanced Research Projects Agency, Autonomous Robot, Centimeter, Darpa, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Enthused, Flight Controller, Flight Performance, Fly, Flying Insects, Harvard University, Insect, Intelligence Applications, Milligram, Power Source, Real Fly, Research Projects Agency, Resolve, Robots, Wingspan
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owfsasha1
February 11, 2010 at 4:17 am
Wow! You always see things like this is movies, but I never realized how possible it was. The possibilities are endless with this new invention. Very interesting!
jacky
February 11, 2010 at 4:25 am
it is a very interesting article about the Robotic fly takes off.
ml2udhaya
February 11, 2010 at 4:27 am
Its really interesting.. But i wonder how this small robots can be used in military operations. I mean the source of power, and how data transfer is possible from this small robot. I would be more interested in technical specification of this small robot. Any how thanks for this small piece of cake..
Rhonda
February 11, 2010 at 4:39 am
wow i need to keep eye on fly in my home.It might be Robo sent by US military.lol.
Joking apart its a good instrument for US intelligence agencies in places like Af-Iraq
priya
February 11, 2010 at 4:42 am
It’s great to see how fast the world is progreessing in developing new technologies.
rashesh
February 11, 2010 at 5:31 am
It’s very very nice article about small flying robot
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