“At half the weight of a paper clip, ‘RoboBee X-wing’ has achieved untethered flight using ultra-lightweight solar cells, powering piezoelectric actuators, via a stripped down circuit board.”
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“Harvard’s RoboBee X-Wing can fly under its own power,” Mariella Moon, EnGadget
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