Insects give flying lessons to drones

• Autores: Nicole Kobie
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3107, 2017, pág. 16
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Drones could learn a thing or two from the birds and the bees. If an aerial robot loses a part mid-flight, people would expect it to crash. But it could stay airborne by mimicking fruit flies, which can keep flying even after a catastrophic loss of limb. To uncover the insects' secret, biologists placed flies with a clipped wing into a wind tunnel and analyzed their movements using high-speed cameras. They used this data to run simulations of the flies' wing motion