Twelve years ago started a group of researchers from Harvard in the U.S. planning and development of a flying mini-drone, a kind of flying bee robot.
Now researchers have finally found the solution, and the mini-drone can fly, writes The Register.
Made from scratch
One of the scientists behind the bee drone named RoboBee, Robert Wood, explaining why the project has taken so long in a statement.
– We had to create and develop all the solutions and parts from scratch. We could get one component to work, but then we moved over to the next, to five new problems arise, says Wood.
New innovations
During the development process, researchers have managed to invent two new innovations.
One is a piezoelectric vane actuator, and the second is a method to cut the “bee” carbon fiber and polymer film body with a laser in such a way that it automatically transformed from 2D to 3D.
Something about the created great difficulties for the researchers was how small the portions of the drone may be. If one of the wings was the smallest asymmetric, this would have been enough that it could fly.
Hoping for a whole swarm in two years
Researchers still have little left to do before the little Vespa drones can fly around in the air, but they are optimistic and hope that within two years have managed to finish a swarm of flying Robo- bees.
Read more about the details of prosjeketer here.
See demonstration videos of RoboBee below:
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