Insect-sized drones needed considerable improvement on previous designs, the team acknowledged in their paper. In a previous MIT design, the robotic insect was made from four identical units — each ...

Used for both clandestine military operations as well as entertainment, the insect drone does not have the travel or video recording time of larger drones. See UAV and personal drone. THIS ...

Each member of the robotic insect swarm weighs less than a paperclip ... This isn’t the first time we’ve seen tiny drones planned for pollination, but it is notable because of what the ...

When pollination through insects cannot be expected, artificial pollination by hand by humans is necessary, and the idea of using insect-sized drones for this artificial pollination has been proposed.

Explaining their motivation behind the study, Dr. Terutsuki says, "Our team is continuing to develop bio-hybrid drones that utilize living insect antennae as odor sensor elements. In this research ...

For use in a drone, the scientists developed an electroantennography sensor (EAG) in which they made the signals of the insect sensors readable via electrodes. In a first step, however ...