MIT Develops Tiny Robot That Hops Like a Bee and Dreams of Mars

MIT Develops Tiny Robot That Hops Like a Bee and Dreams of Mars

MIT engineers have created a paperclip-sized robot that flies like a bumblebee and pollinates crops on Mars. This tiny marvel, from Kevin Chen’s Soft and Micro Robotics Lab, flies and hops. This robot, weighing less than a gram, flaps its wings 400 times a second, just like a real bee. Four soft actuators (artificial muscles) [...]