Laser-Powered Flying Machine Weighs Milligrams
We’ve become used to seeing some beautiful hand-made creations at the smaller end of the flying machine scale, tiny aircraft both fixed and rotary wing. An aircraft that weighs a few grams is entirely...
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Robotic Fruit Fly Won’t Eat Your Fruit
The DelFly project has been busy since the last time we checked in on them. The Dutch team started 13 years ago and produced the smallest camera-carrying drone, and an autonomous tiny ornithopter....
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2019 Cornell Cup Winners Include Autonomous Boat, Flapping UAV, and Leaping...
For college-aged engineers and designers, finding a problem they’re truly passionate about early on could very well set the trajectory for an entire career. This is precisely the goal of the Cornell...
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Flapping Wings And The Science Of How Bees Can Fly
Jerry Seinfeld launched his career with Bee Movie, an insect-themed animated feature that took the world by storm in 2007. It posed the quandary – that supposedly, according to all known laws of...
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Flight of the Pterothopter: A Jurassic-Inspired Ornithopter
Ornithopters look silly. They look like something that shouldn’t work. An airplane with no propeller and wings that go flappy-flappy? No way that thing is going to fly. There are, however, a multitude...
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Flappy Bird Drone Edition
Ornithopters have been — mostly — the realm of science fiction. However, a paper in Advanced Intelligent Systems by researchers at Lund University proposes that flapping wings may well power the drones...
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That Drone Up in the Sky? It Might be Built Out of a Dead Bird
In a lot of ways, it seems like we’re in the “plateau of productivity” part of the hype cycle when it comes to drones. UAVs have pretty much been reduced to practice and have become mostly an...
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