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Robotic Fly

Small, winged insects have a reputation for accidentally buzzing into closed windows or swooping into your eye during a bike ride. But the research of Robert Wood, assistant professor of engineerin...  
 
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Robotifly (3 months ago) Show Hide
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lol
Jaahja (9 months ago) Show Hide
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What is this shit?! I did not see it fly? It´s just a joke.
dragonofriend (7 months ago) Show Hide
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thers another video with the same exact thing it rlly does fly =P
coatduck (2 months ago) Show Hide
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it didn't fly on its own, this is real, it was being held up by two poles to stop it from falling over and flaping madly on the ground, but it lifted itself off of the ground at around 2:15
levo75 (9 months ago) Show Hide
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Yet another paranoid idiot.
MishuTaste (9 months ago) Show Hide
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You can use them for spying.
paxcoder (9 months ago) Show Hide
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it uses a power source that's on the ground.
dinmagic (10 months ago) Show Hide
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Why would you like to see nature downgrade itself? The brain is by far the most complex thing human beings had ever laid eyes on. No computer had ever even come close to replicate the brain of a fly.
lejink (8 months ago) Show Hide
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actually they have, swarm programs, obsticle recoglition programs, balancing programs, all the things a fly can do a computer can now be programmed to do. its a matter of shrinking it small enough to controle this small robot, and finding a power supply light enough so this robot can fly
kibadatchi (11 months ago) Show Hide
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awesome! try making it produce eggs that change into nano bots now. lol

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