Darpa Wants Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics

Re:Darpa Wants Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics by dzhiurgis on Friday July 20, 2018 @03:02PM (#17577874)

Just happen to watch rubber band-powered planes video. Penny planes are 3.5 grams and Peanut planes are 8 grams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y22mV2smkA

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Re:Darpa Wants Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics by themodelplumber on Saturday July 21, 2018 @01:25AM (#17580817)

Whoa, I just landed on that very video an hour ago, after watching The Slingshot Guy's CSI video, then his aircraft carrier video, then three paper airplane videos, then two balsa airplane videos, then a South American homemade card airplane video, and then two rubber band airplane videos.

I tapped your link with no idea I was about to rewatch a video I just felt like I dug halfway through YouTube to find. That was really weird.

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Re:Darpa Wants Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics by overcast on Friday July 20, 2018 @03:37PM (#17578211)

A world I never knew existed. That rubberband talk was crazy.

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Re:Darpa Wants Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics by dzhiurgis on Saturday July 21, 2018 @04:08AM (#17581187)

Here’s another one - gliders that can reach 835 kmh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv7-YM4wno8

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Re:Darpa Wants Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics by martyvis on Friday July 20, 2018 @06:26PM (#17579495)

Maxfliart's videos of these are particularly beautiful https://youtu.be/MOurDGVitgQ

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