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Micro/Nano Robotics

Video: Robotic fly beats wings at 120 hertz and takes off

A strange-looking fly has been seen buzzing around the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. And we have the video.

It's the robotic fly built by Robert Wood and his colleagues at Harvard. Click here or on the image below to go to the video player:

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Want to learn more? In "Fly, Robot Fly," Robert Wood describes how he built his artificial fly. This other article, "Fly Like a Fly" is about how real flies ... fly.

Comments (1)

bai:

Haven't you seen DelFly and DelFly by TU Delft. Check it out.

http://www.delfly.nl/
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cd41OAC2T8I
http://youtube.com/watch?v=b_qaHw1V1m0

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