Tag: drones
How can flying bugs and drones inform up from down? —...
While drones typically use accelerometers to estimate the direction of gravity, how flying insects achieve this has been a mystery, as they have no...
Drones are dropping enemy bugs on dangerous bugs
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are widely used to treat agricultural crops around the world and to spray against disease-transmitting pests such as mosquitoes. ...
Consultants examine drones to battle bugs posing crop and well being...
Drones fly increasingly faster, farther and over longer periods of time and perform a broader range of tasks in the process. Now they...
Drones in New Zealand to Examine Threatened Bugs
Scientists in New Zealand develop Drones and small radars to track insects to protect endangered ones species.
The new technology involves attaching radars to...
Insect loaded drones take flight over orchards
An insect control program in the Okanagan for three decades is reaching for the heavens. The sterile insect release program used to pamper...
MIT’s insect-sized drones are constructed to outlive collisions – TechCrunch
Insects are many things - but they are not fragile. Sure, most cannot withstand the full force of a human foot, but because...
Researchers create tiny, next-generation insect impressed drones
Researchers at MIT have developed next-generation drones inspired by insects. Chen, a member of the Electrical and Computer Science Department and Electronics Research...
Insect-like drones can take a beating and maintain flying
Insect-like drones have come a big step closer to practical reality. Researchers from Harvard, MIT, and the City University of Hong Kong have...
Bee Bots: Tiny drones that behave like bugs
The small agile drones that look like insects, fly and moveRecognition: Kevin Yufeng ChenWhen you hear the word “drone”, you imagine a powerful, bulky...