Posted by Robert on August 27, 2009 ·
You might be already au fait with the 7 gram grasshopper, which was already written about. It is capable of jumping a distance of 1.4 meters. Now a wing has been added to the same grasshopper by the researcher’s at the EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligence Systems. The wings are made of carbon, mylar and shape memory muscles.
It is quite interesting [...]