A team of researchers in Britain has developed an insect-shaped robot that works with an electromechanical engine without the need to rely on traditional motors and gears.
This new innovation, developed by a research team at the University of Bristol in Britain and reported in the journal Science Robotics, paves the way for the development of smaller, lighter and more effective robots to participate in search and rescue work, environmental monitoring and flight in dangerous environments.
The new robot works with a movement system called “LASA” and relies on an artificial muscular system that moves the flapping wings without the need for gears or parts.
Rotary, and inspired by the idea of bees and other flying insects.
The study team says that the new method of flight depends on simplifying the movement of the flapping of the wings, which will facilitate the manufacture of flying robots the size of insects in the future.
And the website “Vis.org”, which specializes in technology, quoted researcher Tim Helps, head of the study team, as saying that “by using the new technology, we applied electrostatic forces directly to the wings instead of relying on complex systems for transmission, which led to improved performance and ease of design, And it opened the door wide to a new, cheap, lightweight class of flying robots for use in many important applications in the future.”
The researchers believe that autonomous flying robots can participate in many necessary environmental tasks in the future, such as pollinating plants or carrying out search and rescue work in cases of collapsed buildings, for example.