It was applied to Harvard’s RoboBee – a tiny flapping-wing robot. “RoboBee is an excellent platform to explore the interface of biology and robotics,” said Alyssa Hernandez, co-author ...

robot Medium Flight muscles: piezoelectric ceramic, carbon fiber, and alumina ceramic; wings: polyester film membrane stretched over a carbon-fiber composite frame; wing transmission: polyimide-film ...

Though it weighs in at just 80 milligrams, you’ll definitely want this little RoboBee in your corner. Designers Kevin Y. Ma, Robert J. Wood, Pakpong Chirarattananon, and Sawyer B. Fuller at Harvard ...

Harvard University’s Microrobotics Lab has been working on the RoboBee, a tiny flying drone inspired by bugs like midges and mosquitoes.