Images of Drones That Look Like Insects

Terrifying New ‘Insect Drones’ May Soon Be Buzzing Our Skies…

February 4, 2014  


UPfyre - Nature has perfected something that us humans simply stumbled upon. In doing research and development of drones, engineers were struggling with one major problem: how to make drones be able to dodge and fly around objects, move with extreme agility, and navigate the elements that Mother Nature produces.

Well, Mother Nature herself had the answer to their problems. Engineers soon realized that she had perfected flight, in the form of insects, which were ‘engineered’ vastly different than what man had produced thus far: they had flapping wings, whereas man had always made it’s flight possible with ‘fixed-wing’ aircraft.
No longer…

Engineers have began producing tiny drones that mimic the biological technology that pesky insects exhibit on a daily basis. They designed drones that were just like insects…thus…the Microdrone.
Let the Apocalyptical theories begin…

Engineers have developed drones based on technology Mother Nature has provided through insects, and are calling these new drones ‘Microdrones’

Mother Nature has had this technology available for millions of years. We have merely discovered it’s existence.

Apparently traditional ‘Fixed-wing’ aircraft are pretty old school now…

“The robots you know tomorrow are going to look like nothing you know today. More likely, they will look like the animals around you..” says Peter Singer of the Brookings Institute.

The Microdrones can fly, bump into things, recover, and keep flying.

This is one of the first ones developed by researchers at Harvard University.

Most of them have shock absorbers that are designed from the bodies of house flies.

Some of these robotic insects could perform humanitarian efforts, such as searching disaster areas for survivors.

Some could have agricultural benefits, such as pollination that real bees usually do. Others could monitor traffic, or be used for environmental research.

US military developing insect surveillance drones

July 28, 2012

PressTV - Reports indicate the US military has poured huge sums of money into surveillance drone miniaturization and is developing micro aircraft which now come in a swarm of bug-sized flying spies.

According to various internet sources, a team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in conjunction with the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Arlington, Virginia, is helping develop what they are calling a micro aerial vehicle (MAV) that will undertake various espionage tasks.

The robotic insect can effortlessly infiltrate urban areas, where dense concentrations of buildings and people, along with unpredictable winds and other obstacles make it impractical.

It can be controlled from a great distance and is equipped with a camera and a built-in microphone.

The new device has the capability to land precisely on human skin, use its super-micron sized needle to take DNA samples and fly off again at speed. All people feel is the pain of a mosquito bite without the burning sensation and the swelling of course.

The hard-to-detect surveillance drone can also inject a micro radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking device right under skin, and can be used to inject toxins into enemies during wars.

As early as in 2007, the US government was accused of secretly developing robotic insect spies when anti-war protesters in the United States saw some flying objects similar to dragonflies or little helicopters hovering above them.

The US is not alone in miniaturizing drones that imitate nature: France, the Netherlands and Israel are also developing similar devices.

France has developed flapping wing bio-inspired micro drones. The Netherlands BioMAV (Biologically Inspired AI for Micro Aerial Vehicles) has also built Parrot AR drones.

Meanwhile, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has produced a butterfly-shaped drone, weighing just 20 grams, which can gather intelligence inside buildings.

The insect drone, with its 0.15-gram camera and memory card, is managed remotely with a special helmet. Putting on the helmet, the operator finds themselves in the “butterfly’s cockpit” and virtually sees what the butterfly sees in real time.

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