Sometimes, good things come in small packages. Extremely tiny packages such as a microrobot that can pollinate fields of crops, help rescue people, and so on. Researchers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) are already working on that and they’re making significant progress. Back in spring, MIT announced an insect-sized …
Read More »Tiny antennae that record how bees navigate may help perfect…
They are not just cute and stripy, but devastatingly efficient when it comes to locating the best pollen-rich flowers. As a result, the humble bee is at the centre of a £4.8 million project to create drones and driverless cars. In a unusual experiment, scientists painstakingly stuck tiny radar transponders to …
Read More »Tiny optical gyroscope could find a home in phones and drone…
Engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created the world’s smallest optical gyroscope, a sensor that could be used in smartphones and drones. The optical gyroscope resting on grains of rice (Credit: Ali Hajimiri/Caltech) The tiny device, which is smaller than a grain of rice, determines its position …
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