An ultralight autonomous aircraft that mimics the navigational abilities of a fly could one day become a real fly on the wall.
The 10-gram microflyer, being developed by a team of researchers lead by Dario Floreano at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, has a 36-centimeter (14-inch) wingspan.
But it could one day be shrunk to insect size and used for search and rescue.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060410/flybot_tec.html
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