Japanese Researchers Develop Robotic Hummingbird
December 29th, 2009
We’ve seen robotic hummingbirds before, but it’s still a rare thing. Japanese researchers at Chiba University near Tokyo have developed a new one that behaves just like the bird and is controlled by an infrared sensor.
The bot weighs less than an ounce and can fly in a figure eight, moving up, down, left and right. The next steps, which the researchers hope for by 2011, include the ability to hover mid-air and have a small camera attached. The cost is around 2 million dollars to develop and the idea is that it could help search for people in dangerous situations, or search for criminals.
Maybe it will flutter on by you or I on some future day and dip it’s long beak in our ear, sucking our brain matter out like sweet nectar.
