Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash ...

The Harvard RoboBee is now outfitted with its most reliable landing gear to date, inspired by one of nature’s most graceful ...

Inspired by this natural design, the engineers outfitted the RoboBee with its own set of long, double-jointed legs. These new ...

RoboBee offers diminutive size and insect-like flight prowess for a range of potential scientific, commercial, and emergency ...

The RoboBee is already a little older. It has now been upgraded with a landing gear and a flight control system that enable ...

Harvard’s tiny flying robot, known as the RoboBee, has just gotten a major upgrade that makes landing much safer and smoother. Inspired by the long legs of crane flies, engineers have given the robot ...

These improvements protect the robot's delicate piezoelectric actuators -- energy-dense "muscles" deployed for flight that are easily fractured by external forces from rough landings and collisions.

The Future of Cybernetic Organisms with Energy-Efficient Designs”, published in Big Data and Cognitive Computing explores the ...

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