Robots could use intelligently designed wings

 

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Joel Kontinen

 Biomimicry or biomimetics has recently become a success, that is, copying amazing design seen in nature, has become a flourishing research field.

Biomimicry is a science that brings out that what God has designed. And what he did, He did very well.

Now, scientist have said that small robots could get more lift when they hover by moving their wings in a “treading water” motion instead of flapping them like hovering insects do.

In an experiment with a robotic wing, Swathi Krishna at the University of Southampton in the UK and Karen Mulleners at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, found that flying micro-robots could hover up to 50 per cent more efficiently if they used a wing. 

Source:

 Padavic-Callaghan,  Karmela. 2022. Hovering robots could get more lift by 'treading water' in the air New Scientist 11 August