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...Right now we’re developing decision-making procedures predicated on really simple control behavior—for example, avoiding obstacles or flying towards sensory stimuli,” says Wood, who is teaching Engineering Sciences 159, “Introduction to Robotics...
While even Wood concedes that his work may seem “science-fiction-esque,” there are wide-ranging applications for these flying machines...
...Eventually we want the MAVs to be so inexpensive that they would be disposable. Even if most of them are destroyed in the search process, the mission would still be considered a success,” Wood says...
...young and bearded Wood, who joined the Harvard faculty as an assistant professor in 2005, brought the idea for the project from his graduate work at University of California at Berkeley. The project’s initial goal was to create a small device capable of sustained autonomous flight...
...Flying insects have been doing it for thousands of years, so it seemed like an ideal place to start our design,” Wood says...