DARPA has done it again. This time with a tiny 10-gram robot that flaps its wings like a bird. It’s the first wireless robot this tiny that can also carry its own power supply. Bad guys will be trying to swat this nano-bot like a mosquito one day soon.

They still have to work out some of the finer details of course. It’s better than a mosquito in wind, but still can only withstand breezes of around 5 mph. It also has some endurance limitations. It can only stay in the air for 20 seconds before the batteries have to be recharged.

Maybe next it can zap bad guys with an electric jolt and kill itself much like a bee.

[Dvice]

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