Autonomous lightweight flapping-wing robots show potential to become a safe and
affordable solution for rapidly deploying robots around humans and in complex …

Inspired by the aerial prowess of flying insects, we demonstrate that their robotic counterpart,
an insect-scale flapping-wing robot, can mimic an aggressive maneuver seen in natural …

With the goal of operating a biologically inspired robot autonomously outside of laboratory
conditions, in this paper, we simulated wind disturbances in a laboratory setting and …

Successful demonstrations of controlled flight in flying insect-sized robots (FIRs)<; 500 mg
have all relied on piezoactuated flapping wings because of unfavorable downward size …

We present a new method for synthesizing and implementing high-performance six-degree-
of-freedom (-DOF) flight controllers for the Bee, an insect-scale flying robot driven by four …

Without sufficient payload capacity to carry necessary electronic components, flying robots at
the scale of insects cannot fly autonomously. Using a simple scaling heuristic to determine a …

The use of flexure hinges offers significant benefits compared to conventional revolute joints,
such as the use for compact monolithic designs of flexural structures, no friction losses and …

An insect–computer hybrid robot, often referred to as a biological machine or an insect
cyborg, is the fusion of a living insect platform and artificial microdevices, including …

The mechanical complexity of flapping wings, their unsteady aerodynamic flow, and
challenge of making measurements at the scale of a sub-gram flapping-wing flying insect …

Recent advances in medical robotics have initiated a transition from rigid serial manipulators
to flexible or continuum robots capable of navigating to confined anatomy within the body. A …