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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Ornithopter what? Artificial butterfly flight!

by Andy Boring, UK Entomology Graduate Student

This is a pretty neat news article that came my way and I thought I would share it. A quick summary is that a group of researchers have made a robotic swallowtail butterfly that flies. The link has a video of the "Ornithopter" in flight and a brief description of what this is all about.

http://www.iop.org/News/news_41310.html

Enjoy!

1 comment:

  1. Awesome! I want a life sized one so I can fly it around town whilst listening to the Neverending Story Theme...

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