science-robotics
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A 185 mg Insect-Sized Robot Took a Flyswatter Hit and 11,000x Its Weight, Then Flew Again Most insect-sized flying robots are lab pets: one crash into a wall and a rigid hinge or gearbox snaps. A team led by Yuan Zhu, Hanxiang Wu and Professor Qibing Pei at UCLA, with Wenzhong Yan at UC Davis has built one that shrugs it off. Their 185 mg robot, lighter than a fifth of a gram, took off again after being hit with a flyswatter and after being flattened under aluminium blocks weighing… |
