About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...

Thankfully, researchers at MIT may have come up with a bit of a solution—robotic insect swarms that can ... moving closer to being able to use these flying machines in practical applications.

For use in a drone, the scientists developed an electroantennography sensor (EAG) in which they made the signals of the insect sensors readable via electrodes. In a first step, however ...

You can see the MIT-developed drone in action in the YouTube video below. Tiny insect-inspired robot can perform death-defying acrobatics - YouTube A small flying drone. It weighs just 750mg and ...

In a nutshell: Researchers in Japan have merged robotic technology with the finely tuned senses of silk moths to create a bio-hybrid drone ... electrical signals from insect antennae in response ...