these are awsome ..............but they will take over the world one day A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors-Crazy must watch HD Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme
That's crazy clever...scared what might be patrolling the streets in future...or our army might be made of these instead.of.people... Scary...
Would be most cool having a small swarm follow you all the time......until they slowly chop you to death with their teeny rotors. But yeh really cool...want some 8)
apparently, they are looking at technology like these and cockroache like robots for search and rescue in collapsed buildings..........but they will have uses in the military too they have also started to look at ways to harness real insects ...........they have found ways of making some cockroaches and moths remote controled and have even implanted small control units into some insects to make them semi cyborg! 'At Cornell University, Amit Lal and Alper Bozkurt worked on the idea at a very fundamental level. They demonstrated that microelectronics-based systems could be implanted into moths during their metamorphosis, integrating the technology directly with the creature. This was the first step towards the goal of creating 'cyborg insects' - perhaps a rather sensational name, but one that seems to have stuck. Under a programme organised by Lal for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), researchers at several universities investigated hybrid insects. Michel Maharbiz, by then at University of California, Berkeley, worked with flying beetles, using their natural response to light and dark to encourage them to fly or stop flying. By stimulating a beetle using an electrode implanted into the optic lobe, the team could make it flap its wings and assume a flying posture. To direct the beetle, a pulse to the flight muscles on left or right would make it turn.'
