The word drone has never had a particularly positive
connotation. Whether it’s being used to describe a boring, unending monotone or
a weaponized harbinger of death, a drone is something to escape.
Which is
perhaps why some commercial drone makers instead market their gadgets as
quadcopters.
Soon, however, these devices might fly by unnoticed. That's
because some of them are being shrunk down to the size of insects, meaning they
could become just as pervasive and just as insidious. While no government
agency has admitted to deploying insect drones, they have reportedly been in the works for years. DARPA, as it
often does, says many of these insect drones are for "disaster
relief."
Whatever their ultimate purpose, these insect drones involve
impressive feats of engineering. Check out the gallery to see how these tiny
(and possibly lethal) drones mimic the vision, body, wing performance, landing,
and behavior of their non-weaponized insect counterparts.
Source: PcMag
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