Japanese researchers have developed a robotic bird that can move freely in the airwith rapid wing movement. This bird robot has a size similar to a real humming bird bird, equipped with a micro motor and four flapping wings that can be 30 times per second, said Hiroshi Liu, researcher at the University of Chiba east of Tokyo.
This unique robot has a weight of 2.6 gram, can fly eight times more stable than a helicopter with propeller. This bird robot controlled by infrared sensors and can moveup, down, right or left.
Hiroshi Liu plans to make it hover for silent at one point in the air, and equip it with amicro camera in March 2011.
This robot takes development costs 200 million yen ($ 2.1 million), can be used tohelp rescue people trapped in damaged buildings, looking for criminals or evenoperate as a vehicle probe on Mars.
