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What looks and flies like an insect, but can be used for exploring hazardous environments, search and rescue, and reconnaissance? Answer: a microrobotic dragonfly...
After the insect is complete, which Shang said takes about two weeks if everything goes smoothly, it’s time for testing...
...volksparteien" that have ruled Germany in coalition since 2005. He may be best known outside Germany for his disparaging remarks in 2005 comparing hedge funds to "locusts" that descend on a country and strip it bare (a comment of which he remained proud, keeping a statue of the insect on his desk). But Müntefering was in fact a more centrist figure than many of his party colleagues. Newspapers referred to him as the "keystone" on which the grand coalition rested and the "hinge" binding the partnership together...
...Museum is most of all, and rightly, an art book. The specimens are arranged on the black or white pages like jewels on velvet or silk, the feathers and insect wings, corals and shells as brilliant as when they were first pinned into cork-lined drawers or stowed in boxes and jars. Stacey, who shot with film and scanned the images into a computer, says she limited her digital intervention to boosting contrast or deep-etching outlines. "I'm trying to give the sense that it is there in front of you. It's not the actual object...
...Flying insect-like robots could play a big role in the future of military reconnaissance and crop surveillance. The Defense Department has been funding such research for years, and now labs from coast to coast are starting to deliver promising results--like Harvard's microrobotic fly, below, that can beat its wings 110 times per second. The bug has yet to be outfitted with a camera or a self-contained power source...