UC Berkeley Biomimetic Millisystems Lab Robots

[HonorisCausa1]

Reminds me of a moth blinded ( or attracted by light).

[falcord]

So now I can pay 0 and have a flying 0/2 artifact?

[THISISAVERYCOOLNAME]

wow the flying robot looks awsome!

[ChickenHawk110]

So the iBird smacks straight into walls and other household objects just like a domestic budgie when it decides to fly somewhere.

[Tigregalis]

the ornithopters are both awesome. the first one... not so much.

[endthedisease]

That's an oftly large cockroach.

[lceus]

You're better off adding a heat/infrared sensor on the flying drone because it is prone to hitting humans in autonomous flight. You could adjust it to only avoid temperatures between 35 and 40 degrees Celsius.

[Lightice1]

@lceus Or you could use echolocating instead, and avoid all the issues of thermal cameras, such as failing to see anything in a hot day.

[lceus]

@Lightice1 That's a good option if the technology is there and fast enough. You could also combine both for efficiency. If it's a cold day/room, you can use the infrared sensor, if it's a hot day, nearing 35 degrees celcius, you can switch to echolocation. Echo location depends on a lot more factors though so you should use it as a near-last resort.

[mind1505]

great1! the bipadle ornithopter looks awesome ^^

[THE16THPHANTOM]

the first one looks like a wasted effort.

[ElysiumLabs]

awesome! I think the controllers you guys use a "soft computing" approach like neural networks for the controllers right? I think the marriage of soft and hard(algorithmic) controllers may be a interesting topic in the future.

[OblivionLoung]

First one was inconvenient and quite slow. The second is quite aerodynamic, being able to hover like a bird.

[palauskas]

@OblivionLoung both are still quite interesting however.