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Engineers Look to Insects for Ideas in Designing Tiny Palm-Sized "Micro Air Vehicles"

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Is it a bird? A plane? In the case of micro air vehicles -- tiny self-piloted flying machines -- it's a little of both with some insect and robot characteristics thrown in. While not quite able to leap over a building in a single bound, microflyers (as they are called at the Georgia Institute of Technology) will have some fairly astounding characteristics. Georgia Tech engineers envision that these six-inch machines will be able to fly to a target and feed back or retrieve information in a variety of forms, including visual, chemical and biologic.

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