Scientists in Japan, successfully create a robot butterfly could move well. Its form was like a real butterfly, complete with beautiful wings and can fly.
This work, published in IOP Publishing’s scientific journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics and documented in a video uploaded to YouTube.
According to the researchers, among the many species of butterflies, Swallowtail is a type which is unique. Species of butterfly has a wider wing rather than his body. That is why, Swallowtail butterflies have a low level flying speed because of the ability to control its aerodynamic function is very limited.
Body movement is also passive, unlike other butterflies that have an active reaction to the movement of its aerodynamics. Thus the information quoted from Science Daily, Monday (05/24/2010).
To prove that the Swallowtail butterfly can fly straight with just a simple movement, hence made a replica of the butterfly that looks very similar to the original. Inside the tiny robot butterfly is immersed motion analysis software to facilitate the researcher overseeing the performance of flight.
Experiments using a replica of the butterfly showed that the activity of flying can be done with a simple movement without feedback control. The workings of this robot butterfly can then be applied to the newest generation of aerodynamic systems.
| Title | : | Swallowtail Butterfly Robot |
| Category | : | Robotics News. |
| Tags | : | aerodynamic motion system, aerodynamic robot system, aerodynamic systems, Butterfly Robot, flying robot, |
The word robotics was derived from the word robot, which was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Liar!", published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction. Asimov was unaware that he was coining the term; since the science and technology of electrical devices is electronics, he assumed robotics already referred to the science and technology of robots. In some of Asimov's other works, he states that the first use of the word robotics was in his short story Runaround (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942). However, the word robotics appears in "Liar!"
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Really simple and little robot.