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Fruit-fly inspired robots hold steady in a gust of wind

Flying devices weighing only 10 milligrams could be controlled by an unconventional set of instruments.
A palm-sized 30-g quad-rotor

An ultra-light instrument package mounted on a 30-gram quadcopter (pictured) drew less power than a gyroscope-based system. Credit: Mark Stone, Univ. Washington

A flight-control system lighter than a grain of rice might one day help tiny robots to hover like fruit flies1.

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Nature 612, 192 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04161-x

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  1. Fuller, S., Yu, Z. & Talwekar, Y. P. Sci. Robot. 7, eabq8184 (2022).

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