{"id":3555,"date":"2009-12-29T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/this-is-a-2-1-million-robot-hummingbird-and-it-could-save-your-life-robots\/"},"modified":"2009-12-29T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T03:00:00","slug":"this-is-a-2-1-million-robot-hummingbird-and-it-could-save-your-life-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/this-is-a-2-1-million-robot-hummingbird-and-it-could-save-your-life-robots.php","title":{"rendered":"This is a $2.1 Million Robot Hummingbird and It Could Save Your Life [Robots]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>This tiny, flying robot flaps its wings 30 times per second—just like a real hummingbird—and will one day save lives by searching for survivors in wreckage and spots not easily accessible by humans.<\/p>

So far, the development of this hummingbird has cost $2.1 million and that number's growing. Japanese researchers are hoping to make the robot hover at a point in mid-air—just like the bird which inspired it—as they control it using infrared sensors. Once they manage that and add a tiny camera, they imagine that the robot will \"be used to help rescue people trapped in destroyed buildings, search for criminals or even operate as a probe vehicle on Mars.\"<\/p>

A space-exploring, human-saving, crime-stopping robot bird? Brilliant. [PhysOrg<\/a> via Engadget<\/a>]<\/p>

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