Smaller, faster, deadlier - how drones are changing our world
Unmanned flying machines from insect-sized swarms to car-sized transports are about to become a ubiquitous part of our daily lives.
It’s called the RoboBee. It weighs less than a tenth of a gram and is half the length of a paperclip. The translucent, individually controlled wings become invisible as they flap 120 times per second.
According to researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard, when their RoboBee nano-drone eventually flies out of the lab, it has the potential to work in a swarm, just like the insect that inspired it, pollinating crops and completing a range of other useful tasks.
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