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Video: Pentagon's Hummingbird Drone Takes Flight
News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Jul 4, 2009 2:51 PM EDT
Article Source: Wired Newsadvertisement
Military-backed researchers have built a tiny drone that looks and flies like a hummingbird, flapping its little robotic wings to stay in the air. So far, the mock bird, built for Pentagon mad-science division Darpa, has only stayed aloft for 20 seconds at a time. But that short flight was enough to show the potential of a whole new class of miniature spies, inspired by nature. Darpa just handed AeroVironment, makers of the winged "nano air vehicle," another $2.1 million to build a hummingbot 2.0.
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