Artificial butterfly in flight and filmed

Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 00:30 in Biology & Nature

A group of Japanese researchers, who publish their findings today Thursday, 20 May in IOP Publishing's Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, have succeeded in building a fully functional replica model -- an ornithopter -- of a swallowtail butterfly, and they have filmed their model butterfly flying.

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