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Uploaded by on Jan 3, 2008

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 engineering and applied sciences, may cause you to look twice at your next fly...

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  • Well, to be fair, nature kinda had a bit of a head start on us...

    The real question is, how long till we need robotic fly swats?

  • I saw a peanut stand, heard a rubber band,

    I saw a needle that winked its eye.

    But I think I will have seen everything

    When I see a robotic fly.

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  • I want a fly robot like wow

  • Sure is lots of design work in this "creation." 

    Makes one wonder how evolution ever got it done.

  • And when it DOES work just like a fly? It'll annoy the fuck out of you.

  • i think the real flies are spices for illuminati , i saw a fly with the all seeing eye tattood in one of its ass chiks , i swear , haven't you noticed they're always in the kitchen or around some food dump...they're collecting salavia samples for DNA

  • The power density of piezo electrics is only as high as motors at high frequencies not 100hz. When this works without being plugged into the wall I will be impressed but let'f face it that is not going to happen, this is just a scam to get funding.

  • Heaven on Earth: theZeitgeistMovement . com

  • 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

  • lol

  • thers another video with the same exact thing it rlly does fly =P

  • 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

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