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DARPA has funded a hummingbird drone prototype as of 10 years ago https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SgxtIPIDBnY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SgxtIPIDBnY
by exegete 4y ago
DARPA has funded a hummingbird drone prototype as of 10 years ago https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SgxtIPIDBnY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SgxtIPIDBnY
- tedmiston 4y agoI came here to say this too ^. I remember hearing research about these in 2012. I went to school right next to the Air Force Research Laboratory which controls a $2B+ budget, and there were research projects around biomimicry, etc. As your link shows, miniature drones that look like birds and mimic actual bird movements definitely exist. IIRC, there has been similar research devoted to small burrowing ground animals as well. How prevalent these are in the wild, and where and what they are used for is a whole other topic, but their existence is crystal clear. I wonder how many people outside of engineering fields actually know about this vs think it is some sort of science fiction.