Nowadays, there is a growing need for flying drones with diverse capabilities for both civilian
and military applications. There is also a significant interest in the development of novel …

Robotics researchers increasingly agree that ideas from biology and self-organization can
strongly benefit the design of autonomous robots. Biological organisms have evolved to …

Flying insects are able to hover and perform agile maneuvers by relying on their flapping
wings to produce control forces, as well as flight forces, due to the absence of tail control …

As the characteristic size of a flying robot decreases, the challenges for successful flight
revert to basic questions of fabrication, actuation, fluid mechanics, stabilization, and power …

Inspired by novel creatures, researchers have developed varieties of fog drop transport
systems and made significant contributions to the fields of heat transferring, water collecting …

Up to this point, researchers working to artificially re-create hovering insect flight have not
demonstrated an integrated micromechanical device that is able to lift its own weight …

The development of flapping-wing micro air vehicles (MAVs) demands a systematic
exploration of the available design space to identify ways in which the unsteady …

In this work, we first present a method to experimentally capture the free flight of a beetle
(Allomyrina dichotoma), which is not an active flyer. The beetle is suspended in the air by a …

The Harvard RoboBee is the first insect-scale cflapping-wing robot weighing less than 100
mg that is able to lift its own weight. However, when flown without guide wires, this vehicle …

Background While global change research has greatly expanded in recent years, it remains
unclear how environmental change will impact the mobility of many organisms. Flight is an …