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submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.zip

Inspired by the humble bee, robotics researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed insect-sized aerial bots with a reimagined wing system that can fly for up to 1,000 seconds – 100 times more than any similar bots we've seen in the past.

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[-] KingGordon@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Nothing good will come of this.

Nothing good for us

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Inspired by the humble bee

**Bumble bee

Seriously, though. Instead of "the humble bee inspired us to make a nightmare bot", how about we go more of a "the humble bee inspired us to save them".

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago
[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

7 decimal places of precision and you could have just said

16 minutes 40 seconds

this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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