Two words: Airborne. Burrito.It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a drone, and it’s about to rock your world.Researchers are attaching small electronic backpacks and electrodes to create a half-bug half-machine life forms that can be controlled wirelessly. What.It’s no secret that drone technology has been a hot topic:
- Amazon is trying to build a drone army
- They are being used to test out new disaster relief strategies
- But most likely you’ve probably seen idiots trying flying drones near airplanes
Half-Bug, half-robot
Drones are being put to use for jobs where it wouldn’t be safe, practical, or possible to use a human. Drones could be used to save lives in disaster situations and make our communities safer.In fact, this goes way beyond drones. Engineers at the University of California Berkeley and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) have created tiny robot beetles, or “biobots,” that actually replace drones.Yes, that’s right. These researchers are attaching small electronic backpacks and electrodes to create a half-bug half-machine life form that can be controlled wirelessly.- These robotic insects are said to be far more agile and need no engineering to keep them airborne.
- These robots could be used to go into small cracks, crevices, and other places where drones can’t go.
- The main appeal of these bugs over drones is that they don’t require constant human control to fly. Human control is only used to change the direction of the creature.