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Video: Pentagon’s Robo-Hummingbird Flies Like the Real Thing

CrunchGear found this 7/3/2009 on wired.com

Military-backed researchers have built a tiny drone that looks and flies like a hummingbird, flapping its little robotic wings to stay in the air. So far, the mock bird, built for Pentagon mad-science division Darpa, has only stayed aloft for 20 seconds at a time. But that short flight was ...