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Tiny Flyer Navigates Like Fly

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the build-a-bigger-flyswatter dept.

Assassin bug writes to tell us the Discovery Channel is reporting on a new ultralight autonomous aircraft that could be the next 'fly on the wall'. From the article: "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."

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  1. Full Story by slashkitty · · Score: 0, Redundant
    http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060410/flyb ot_tec.html

    Why wasn't this linked in the post?

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  2. obligatory by endrue · · Score: 0, Redundant

    but does it run linux?

    DSL maybe, or perhaps Feather Linux?

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