Studying Butterfly Flight to Help Build Bug-Size Flying Robots

Credit: Will Kirk/JHU

Johns Hopkins undergraduate Tiras Lin used high-speed video cameras to analyze the flight dynamics of painted lady butterflies.

« Studying Butterfly Flight to Help Build Bug-Size Flying Robots

Credit: Robert J. Wood, associate professor, and Pratheev Sreetharan, Microrobotics Lab, Harvard University.

The butterfly research will aid the development of flying bug-size robots. Pictured is an insect-inspired flapping-wing micro air vehicle under development at Harvard University.

« Studying Butterfly Flight to Help Build Bug-Size Flying Robots

Credit: Will Kirk/JHU

Tiras Lin, who is conducting the butterfly research, is a Johns Hopkins junior majoring in mechanical engineering

« Studying Butterfly Flight to Help Build Bug-Size Flying Robots

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