A new grasshopper-like robot from the 蘑菇视频 Autonomous Insect Robotics Lab can hop high enough to clear a standard stair step, vary its jump height, right itself and reload for successive jumps.
A team led by the 蘑菇视频 has developed Smellicopter: an autonomous drone that uses a live antenna from a moth to navigate toward smells. Smellicopter can also sense and avoid obstacles as it travels through the air.
Researchers at the 蘑菇视频 have developed a tiny wireless steerable camera that can ride aboard an insect or an insect-sized robot.
Farmers can already use drones to soar over huge fields and monitor temperature, humidity or crop health. But these machines need so much power to fly that they can’t get very far without needing a charge. Now, engineers at the 蘑菇视频 have created a sensing system that is small enough to ride aboard a bumblebee.
Engineers at the 蘑菇视频 have created RoboFly, the first wireless flying robotic insect. This might be one small flap for a robot, but it’s one giant leap for robot-kind.
A new study co-authored by a 蘑菇视频 mechanical engineer demonstrates how flying insect-sized robots can land and stick to surfaces, which conserves energy and extends flight times.