Military researchers have built a tiny drone that looks and flies just like a hummingbird. Even your garden isn’t safe now. Next time you see that pretty hummingbird sucking nectar from your flowers, you may just think twice about how cute it is.

This thing flaps its robotic wings to stay in air like the real thing. So far, the bird has only stayed aloft for 20 seconds at a time, but it has shown its capability as a spy already. AeroVironment doesn’t just want the little drone to fly like a bird but also to look like one. So it has been given another $2.1 million(By DARPA) to build a humming bot version 2.0.

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One Response to “Pentagon’s Robo-Hummingbird Flies Like The Real Thing”

1. Japanese Researchers Develop Robotic Hummingbird | botropolis.com Says:
   December 29th, 2009 at 11:52 am

   [...] seen robotic hummingbirds before, but it’s still a rare thing. Japanese researchers at Chiba University near Tokyo have [...]

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