2022/10/08

Disaster Aid and Pollination: Robot Insects Are Here to Help

● 08/10/2022
“Cyborg cockroaches that find earthquake survivors. A ‘robofly’ that sniffs out gas leaks. Flying lightning bugs that pollinate farms in space. These aren’t just buzzy ideas, they’re becoming reality.”
– Reporter Pranshu Verma, on the state of insectoid micro-scale robotics. In his survey, Verma covers research breakthroughs at the Autonomous Insect Robotics Laboratory at the University of Washington, the MIT, and Japan’s Riken Thin-Film Device Laboratory.
Washington Post
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