Tiny robots often struggle with batteries, sensors, and navigation, yet a common fruit fly already packs all three in a two and a half millimeter body. Researchers at Harvard’s Rowland Institute have now learned to steer those insects as if they were remote controlled microrobots, trading silicon for living tissue. The team reports that it can point Drosophila melanogaster along …
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