It's made from carbon fiber "robo-fly", is part of a village and its wings to power super-fast electronic "muscle" is.
It's like the little robot developers Harvard University at the end rescue operations that can be used.
It demolished buildings, for example, can navigate through small spaces.
Progress is reported in the journal Science.
Dr. Robert Wood of Harvard University and his team, led by Dr Kevin, mother, he has made the world's smallest flying robot said.
Swat those bugs that escape swiftest human effort that allows the fly like agility.
It mainly comes from very accurate arm movements.
Consistent with an incredibly high speed acting on the body adjusts the impact of lift and thrust by insects (and robot) wings enable it to hover, perform or sudden evasive maneuvers.
And just like a real bee, robot's thin, flexible wings beat about 120 times every second.
Researchers apply a voltage to it, every time they deal with special material called a piezoelectric material, obtained with the pace of the wing.
By switching the voltage on and off rapidly, scientists makes this material is just a fly's wings behave like small muscles were able to beat so fast.
Flapping flight
A moth's wings move through the air as he was down by deflecting, are held to a small angle.
This deflection is less pressure on the wings, the wings under construction due to air pressure, flows down faster than most wing means. The lift is a product of the pressure difference.
Flapping and growth creates an additional forward weight and wind resistance of worms "drag" counteracts the force, known as power.
Provides the majority of the downstroke or flap as is, "power stroke" is called. Meanwhile, the wing is more steeply angled downwards.
Through the air as a very brief dip below can imagine the shock - it momentarily to move forwards animal uses its weight is weight. But the wings continue to generate lift because air is created.
Each upstroke, the wing slightly folded inwards to reduce the resistance.
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"We like the deal and biological muscle, get to rest," the doctor said the mother.
The main objective of this study insect flight works, rather than how to build a useful robot had to understand.
He said that for such a diminutive flying car has many uses, although he added there might be.
"We used to search and rescue operations robot, collapsed buildings or other hazardous environments [in] the search for human survivors can imagine," he said.
"They found trace chemicals or other factors to be dispersed in a soothing, be used for environmental monitoring [is].
Dr. Mom too many robots behave like real bugs and "periodically population now struggling to support agriculture in the world to work as a" Pollination of crops can help with suggested.
Current models of robo-fly a small, off-board power source tethered to the doctor the next step mother a "completely wireless flying robot" that will be required to produce other bits of technology will be miniaturise 's.
"Full integration is possible that a few more years before it will be done," he said.
Dr. John Dyhr flying insects also a University of Washington biologist who studies, these flying robots "brilliant engineering feats" were.
"Flight physics in a relatively small scales poorly so hard that small flight system design is considered," he organism "key insights in designing our own fake pamphlet" offered the BBC News said.
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