junkyard-sports & friends

flying ethical

French to English translation

Build drones very small size is something very complex. Indeed, they require not only miniaturize the components to the extreme, but the fly is difficult because the fluid mechanics that applies to this scale is quite different from that governing the flight of birds or airplanes .
Faced with these problems, scientists have had the idea of using what is small and already flies very well alone: the insect.
Among insects, the tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta, a moth) has been designated as the ideal candidate. The idea put forward by researchers is that one can manipulate the metabolism of the butterfly through the injection of venom carefully selected, used to slow or stop the animal at will by paralyzing. If they can complicate these metabolic changes could drive the various parts of the insect and thus control the direction it takes.
The ethical question concerning compliance with the animal remains unanswered. "
Source: Maxisciences | See also: "The robotic insects in the sky" (better quality video)

C.Tong. 2010

1949

flatness

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