Tiny flying robots have always faced a brutal trade-off between agility and battery life, burning through power just to stay ...
Grasshopper’s gangly, awkward flight could solve the biggest power problems in robotics. Standard micro-bots are modeled ...
While much insight has been gleaned from how grasshoppers hop, their gliding prowess has mostly been overlooked. Now ...
Princeton engineers investigated the secret to grasshoppers' efficient gliding, inspiring a new approach for robotic flight.