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FILTER RESULTS ►RoboBee Robot the Size of a Quarter Shows Off New Flight Skills
A tiny biomimetic robot, dubbed RoboBee, recently took wing under controlled flight for the first time. The robot is part of Harvard’s “Micro Air Vehicles” program led by principal investigator Robert Wood, and the controlled flight, years in the making, is no small feat. Show More Summary
Robo Raven gets in a flap with real-life hawk
Researchers from the University of Maryland have built a new micro air vehicle dubbed Robo Raven that's such a convincing flyer, it's been attacked by a local hawk during testing. Though numerous other robotic birds have successfully...Show More Summary
"A 4-minute video by the Air Force Research Laboratory on 'micro aerial vehicles' shows a futuristic bee-size drone flying in an open window..."
"... and taking out an enemy sniper with a miniature explosive payload. Since it was posted in 2009, it has been viewed hundreds of thousands of imes and reposted all over the Web." That's from the NYT article, "Visions of Drones Swarming U.S. Show More Summary
Death from a swarm of tiny drones: U.S. Air Force releases terrifying video of flybots that can can hover, stalk and even kill targets
The Air Vehicles Directorate, a research arm of the American Air Force, has released a video outlining the the future capabilities of Micro Aerial Vehicles. Officials said they have already produced tiny remote-control prototypes but they consume so much power that can only operate for a few minutes. Show More Summary
Algorithms Allow MAVs to Avoid Obstacles with Single Camera and Neuromorphic Hardware
Yesterday, we posted about some dirt cheap micro air vehicles on Kickstarter. Cheap hardware is great, but to make it do cool stuff, you usually need expensive (or at least, very clever) software. Researchers at Cornell have come upShow More Summary
Harvard's Robobee learning to fly
Harvard researchers are getting closer to their goal of developing a controllable micro air vehicle called the Robobee. The tiny robot was already capable of taking off under its own power, but until now it was completely out of control. Show More Summary
AirBurr micro air vehicle can self-right, take off again (video)
EPFL's been tweaking its eerily floating AirBurr since 2009, and its latest iteration adds four carbon-fiber legs, hopefully ensuring you'll never have to chase after and recover it after a crash. When the seemingly clunky frame crashes,...Show More Summary
AirBurr MAV Can Now Self-Right, Is Utterly Unstoppable
In October of 2009, we wrote about the very first version of EPFL's AirBurr micro air vehicle, called HoverMouse. It was an innovative design: a roll cage protected the MAV's engine and flight surfaces, enabling it to crash into walls and floors without damage and then take off again, provided it had enough room to get airborne. Show More Summary
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There's a cool Robotics Trends article on robotics researchers studying how mosquitoes survive flying through rain when every raindrop is 50 times the mass of the mosquito. The idea is to make micro air vehicles that sturdy. The Swirling Brain tells us robot lifeguards are on the way. Show More Summary
AeroVironment Introduces Digital Wasp AE Small Unmanned Aircraft System
AeroVironment has introduced the Wasp small unmanned aircraft system and announced that it has been accepted by the U.S. Air Force for inclusion in its Battlefield Air Targeting Micro Air Vehicle (BATMAV) program. Inclusion into the BATMAV program enabled the Air Force to place an order for Wasp AE systems valued at $2,447,949. The Air [...]
Laser-toting MAV can find its way in tight spaces, might eventually hunt you down (video)
A perpetual weakness of MAVs (micro air vehicles) is their frequent need for hand-holding in anything other than a wide-open or very controlled space. If they're not using GPS or motion sensors to find their locations, they can't turn on a dime the way a human pilot would. Show More Summary
Bird-like autonomous gliding robot can land on a human hand
Although winged micro air vehicles (MAVs) are pretty impressive in the free flight, one of the skills that has proven difficult for them to master is the bird-like perched landing. Aerospace engineers from the University of IllinoisShow More Summary
Mutant Quadrotor MAV Lifts Off After a Century of Development
Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) are way, way more useful if they can hover. Hovering capability allows MAVs to operate indoors, and to make it happen, you have to rely on platform like a helicopter (or a quadrotor) or something more exotic. Show More Summary
Alt.CES: Swarming Micro Air Vehicles
These flying swarmbots would fall under the category of things that aren't at CES but we wish were. Maybe next year? They are part of a project at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland to explore large aerial robot swarms.
Harvesting energy from insects in quest to create tiny cyborg first responders
Insects have served as the inspiration for a number of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) that could be deployed to monitor hazardous situations without putting humans in harm’s way. Now researchers at the University of Michigan College of Engineering are proposing using actual live insects enhanced with electronic sensors to achieve the same result. Show More Summary
Battlefield 3's Fabulous Flying Snipers [Video]
The Micro Air Vehicle in Battlefield 3 is meant to be used to scout the battlefield, remotely spotting enemies. But in this video it becomes a tiny, mobile flying sniper platform. More »
Lockheed Martin wants a fingertip-sized UAV in every soldier’s backpack
Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) in Cherry Hill, NJ has been working on a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) called the Samarai Micro Air Vehicle. It’s flight is based on how a maple seed descends and uses a single-wing design that requires only two moving parts. Where as the maple seed only descends and [...]
Flapping micro air vehicles inspired by swifts
Scientists have designed a micro aircraft that will be able to flap, glide and hover like a bird. Researchers from the Biomimetics-Innovation-Centre in Germany have been inspired by birds to produce a new versatile design of Micro air vehicle (MAV) that combines flapping wings, which allow it to fly at slow speeds and hover, with
Flapping micro air vehicles inspired by swifts
A new design of micro air vehicle (MAV) will be able to flap, glide and hover. Researchers have been inspired by birds to design a MAV that combines flapping wings, which will allow it to fly at slow speeds and hover, with the ability to glide, ensuring good quality images from any on-board camera.
Flapping micro air vehicles inspired by swifts
This innovative design was inspired by one bird in particular, the swift. "We know that swifts are very manoeuvrable and they can glide very efficiently. So we thought these birds would be a very good starting point for an energy efficient flapping-wing MAV," says Mr. Show More Summary
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