Boston Museum of Science/NECN
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Background on Micro Air Vehicles
An excellent introduction to how the military is using micro air vehicle technology for surveillance and other battlefield applications.
Insect-Inspired Robots in Action
Overview by BAE Systems (who has sponsored research by PI Robert Wood) on some of the future, practical possibilities for insect-inspired robots.
Popular Science explains how linked, collaborative micro air vehicles could improve agriculture and find disaster victims.
One potential application of micro-robotic "insects" might someday be to artificially pollinate crops. However, we do not see robotic pollination as a wise or viable long-term solution to Colony Collapse Disorder. If robots were used for pollination—and we are at least 20 years away from that possibility— it would only be as a stop-gap measure while a solution to CCD is implemented to restore natural pollinators. External funding for the RoboBees project is provided entirely by the National Science Foundation. Read more
This is the blog for the project. The blog will be used as an informal forum for disseminating research results, discussing relevant projects and papers, and raising different points of view.
Check out the link and read about the 3 Expeditions in Computing projects awarded by the NSF this year.