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“They perform impressive acrobatic maneuvers when evading predators, recovering from wind gust ... like assisted pollination,” says Kevin Chen, the senior author of an open-access paper ...

Imagine a world where robotic insects take over the critical task of pollination, freeing farmers from relying on the whims of nature or resorting to manually pollinating crops with paintbrushes.

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With transmission and hinge designs that reduced off-axis torsional stress and deformation, the robot achieved a 1000-second hovering flight, two orders of magnitude longer than existing subgram MAVs.