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RoboBee
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RoboBee is a small flapping-wing robot modeled on one of the busiest and most useful insects of all time: the bee. The goal is to create a colony of robotic bees that mimic the behavior of real bees.
- Creator
- Harvard University
- Country
- United States 🇺🇸
- Year
- 2009
- Type
- Aerospace, Research
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Did You Know?
One type of RoboBee is completely printable, assembling itself out of a sequence of flat layers like a pop-up book. |
All RoboBees will be male and will not be able to sting you. Electrocute, maybe, but not sting. |
Specs
- FEATURES
- Modular, easy-to-fabricate design. Equipped with bio-inspired actuators, sensors, and flying control mechanisms.
- HEIGHT
- N/A cm | N/A in
- LENGTH
- N/A cm | N/A in
- WIDTH
- 3 cm | 1.2 in
- WEIGHT
- 0.00005 kg | 0.0001 lb to 0.0002 kg | 0.0004 lb (depending on version)
- SPEED
- 3.6 km/h | 2.2 mph
- SENSORS
- Gyroscopes, optical flow sensors, ocelli sensor (insect-inspired horizon detection sensors).
- ACTUATORS
- Piezoelectric bending bimorph cantilevers
- POWER
- Tethered
- COMPUTING
- N/A
- SOFTWARE
- Custom software
- DEGREES OF FREEDOM (DOF)
- 3 to 5 (depending on model)
- MATERIALS
- Combination of various materials, including composites, ceramics, polymers, and metals. "Pop-up book MEMS" fabrication method.
- COST
- N/A
- STATUS
- Ongoing
- WEBSITE
- http://micro.seas.harvard.edu
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