Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

Mosquitoes are some of the fastest-flying insects. Flapping their wings more than 800 times a second, they achieve their speed because the muscles in their wings can flap faster than their nervous ...

Cornell researchers created a computational model that shows the effect of insects’ morphology on stabilizing their flight.

Robots helped achieve a major breakthrough in our understanding of how insect flight evolved. The study is a result of a six-year long collaboration between roboticists and biophysicists. Robots built ...

Some insects can flap their wings so rapidly that it’s impossible for instructions from their brains to entirely control the behaviour. Building tiny flapping robots has helped researchers shed light ...

Researchers have untangled the intricate physics and neural controls that enable dragonflies to right themselves while they're falling. With their stretched bodies, immense wingspan and iridescent ...

A computer model from Cornell University makes it easier to develop stably flying flapping robots.

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a 3D computational model that decodes the complex ...

Many insects fly synchronously, matching the nervous system pulses to wing movement. But smaller insects don’t have the mechanics for this and must flap their wings harder, which works only up to a ...