Agile Flight for a Tiny, Winged Robot (2 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Agile Flight for a Tiny, Winged Robot (2 of 5)

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A robotic fly is shown in controlled flight. The robot still requires a wire tether for power and control signals. A quarter is shown for scale. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 3 May 2013 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Kevin Y. Ma at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Controlled Flight of a Biologically Inspired, Insect-Scale Robot."

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[Image courtesy of Kevin Ma, Pakpong Chirarattananon]

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