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MIT's robotic insects take flight: Boosting agricultural yields
Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA have developed a new type of robotic insect that ...
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MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs
MIT scientists are designing robotic insects that could one day swarm out of mechanical hives and perform pollination at a rapid pace — ensuring fruits and vegetables are grown at an unprecedented ...
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South Korea wants to build robot birds, snakes, and other animal-inspired ‘biobots’ within the next 5 years
South Korea plans on producing biomimetic military robots based on the behavior of “humans and insects” in the next five years, DAPA told Yonhap, with robots that replicate the movements of ...
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Researchers develop new breed of 'robot bees' to pollinate future indoor farms
"The amount of flight we demonstrated in this paper is probably longer than the entire amount of flight our field has been able to accumulate with these robotic insects," lead author Kevin Chen of ...
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This fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical pollination
New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and ...