{"id":521172,"date":"2018-09-13T14:19:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T18:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/09\/180913141955.htm"},"modified":"2018-09-13T14:19:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T18:19:55","slug":"novel-flying-robot-mimics-rapid-insect-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=521172","title":{"rendered":"Novel flying robot mimics rapid insect flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A novel insect-inspired flying robot, developed by TU Delft researchers from the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory (MAVLab), is presented in Science. Experiments with this first autonomous, free-flying and agile flapping-wing robot &#8212; carried out in collaboration with Wageningen University &#038; Research &#8211; improved our understanding of how fruit flies control aggressive escape maneuvers. Apart from its further potential in insect flight research, the robot&#8217;s exceptional flight qualities open up new drone applications. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novel insect-inspired flying robot, developed by TU Delft researchers from the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory (MAVLab), is presented in Science. Experiments with this first autonomous, free-flying and agile flapping-wing robot &#8212; carried out in collaboration with Wageningen University &amp; Research &#8211; improved our understanding of how fruit flies control aggressive escape maneuvers. Apart from its further potential in insect flight research, the robot&#8217;s exceptional flight qualities open up new drone applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521173,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521172\/revisions\/521173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}