Insect-sized drones needed considerable improvement on ... The thin pair of wings in bees lets them fly freely and with speed, whereas the eight wings on the robotic counterpart caused them ...

NAGANO: Researchers at Shinshu University and another institution have developed an odour-detecting drone that uses antennae ...

Currently, he is leading a project on odor-detecting flying robots—bio-hybrid drones that utilize insect antennae as highly sensitive sensor elements. His innovative work aims to develop these ...

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 ...

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 ...

Isaacs was encouraged by the drone’s performance. Making border applications with drones could be an efficient way to treat ...

Inspired by the humble bee, robotics researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed insect-sized aerial bots with a reimagined wing system that can fly for up to 1,000 ...