High-speed interfacial flight of an insect-scale robot
Hang Gao,Sunghwan Jung,E. Farrell Helbling,Hang Gao,Sunghwan Jung,E. Farrell Helbling
Several insect species are able to locomote across the air-water interface by leveraging surface tension to remain above the water surface. A subset of these insects, such as the stonefly and waterlily beetle, flap their wings to actively move around the two dimensional surface — a locomotion strategy referred to as interfacial flight. Here, we present an insect-scale robot, the γ-bot, inspired by...
