A micro drone could change the face of crop pollination Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed the world's smallest wireless flying robot, weighing just 21 milligrams and ...

New Mexico professor Dr. Mostafa Hassanalian has devised a way to disguise an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) – popularly known ...

Sightings of insect-sized micro drones have been occurring for years, but combined with the direction of genome sequencing outlined in this Atlantic piece - the pair make for a futuristic and ...

NAGANO, Japan >> Researchers in Japan have developed an odor-detecting drone that uses antennae taken from insects. The “insect drone” can autonomously find its way to the source of an odor.

Suppose that you want to get rid of a whole lot of mosquitoes with a quadcopter drone by ... he uses the micro-doppler signatures that the different wing beats of the various insects put out.

An army of micro robots could, for example, imitate the behaviour of pollinating insects by moving from flower to flower. Their ultra-small size could also enable them to explore confined ...