Robotic Moths May Fly Around Mars
Robotic Moths May Fly Around Mars. New Scientist has an article
about small robotic fliers. The Entomopter is being developed by Robert
Michelson (and his design team at Georgia Tech) and is an aero-moth-bot that uses a
reciprocating chemical muscle to flap it’s wings up to 30 times a
second. It looks like they received part of their funding under DARPA so their web page isn’t updated
anymore, but it’s still worth checking out. Makes you wonder how far
the design has progressed since then. Wouldn’t it be cool if they’d
sell these things as toys. :-)
[robots.net]
