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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:01 am Post subject: Humming bird robot from pentagon flies like the real one |
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Military-backed researchers have built a tiny drone that looks and flies like a hummingbird, flapping its little robotic wings to stay in the air. So far, the mock bird, built for Pentagon mad-science division Darpa, has only stayed aloft for 20 seconds at a time. But that short flight was enough to show the potential of a whole...read more |
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