It was applied to Harvard’s RoboBee – a tiny flapping-wing robot. “RoboBee is an excellent platform to explore the interface of biology and robotics,” said Alyssa Hernandez, co-author.

robot Medium Flight muscles: piezoelectric ceramic, carbon fiber, and alumina ceramic; wings: polyester film membrane stretched over a carbon-fiber composite frame; wing transmission: polyimide-film ...

Story by Geoffrey Ingersoll October 5, 2012 at 6:54 PM UTC ...