Swimming RoboBee (IMAGE)

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Swimming RoboBee

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The Harvard RoboBee, designed in Wood's lab, is a microrobot, smaller than a paperclip, that flies and hovers like an insect, flapping its tiny, nearly invisible wings 120 times per second.

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Harvard Microrobotics Lab

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