Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

In the field of aerial microrobots, the challenge of speed and agility has long remained a dream. Although natural flyers ...

Many of us would love the superpower to fly, and for good reason: Flight offers a crucial evolutionary advantage. Flying enables an animal to travel large distances quickly, in search of food and new ...

Mosquitoes are some of the fastest-flying insects. Flapping their wings more than 800 times a second, they achieve their speed because the muscles in their wings can flap faster than their nervous ...

Robots helped achieve a major breakthrough in our understanding of how insect flight evolved. The study is a result of a six-year long collaboration between roboticists and biophysicists. Robots built ...

Researchers are one step closer to creating a micro-aircraft that flies with the manoeuvrability and energy efficiency of an insect after decoding the aerodynamic secrets of insect flight. Dr John ...

Researchers have untangled the intricate physics and neural controls that enable dragonflies to right themselves while they're falling. With their stretched bodies, immense wingspan and iridescent ...

For decades, people have repeated a peculiar claim: that honeybees (and especially bumblebees) shouldn't be able to fly. According to conventional aerodynamic models, their chunky bodies and ...

Moth and bee flight comparisons. Credit: Georgia Tech/Rob Felt Mosquitoes are some of the fastest-flying insects. Flapping their wings more than 800 times a second, they achieve their speed because ...