MIT researchers are designing robotic insects capable of swarming from mechanical hives to handle precise pollination tasks efficiently. The team designed their tiny, flying robots to be ...

Even the most advanced robots developed so far cannot compete with nature's pollinators like bees in terms of endurance, speed, and agility. The research team developed a palm-sized flying robot that ...

The wingspan of a plane is large enough to satisfy the lift equations for flight, so they don't need to flap. But the small wings of a bee compared to its relatively fat body are not. A regular ...

which stated the bumble bee should not be able to fly under normal rules of aerodynamics, until now science was been unable to explain how mosquitoes managed to flap their wings through such a ...

Move over bees, MIT researchers have developed a robot insect for artificial pollination to underpin an entirely indoor farm ...

A bee, with only two wings ... generating the mechanical force needed for wing flapping. Previous designs struggled with buckling at high frequencies, reducing power and efficiency.

For instance, a bee has only two wings, yet it can perform rapid and highly controlled motions ... The new transmissions inhibit this bending-buckling motion, which reduces the strain on the ...

With transmission and hinge designs that reduced off-axis torsional stress and deformation, the robot achieved a 1000-second hovering flight, two orders of magnitude longer than existing subgram MAVs.