Developed under the leadership of Professor Liwei Lin of the University of California Berkeley Mechanical Engineering, the robot takes off with the impact of an external magnetic field thanks to the withdrawal of its magnets.
The lifting force formed by this movement allows the robot to rise from the ground. The flight route can be controlled by precisely adjusting the power of the magnetic field. Just like a wild bee, he can collect nectar from flower to flowers, hang in the air, change direction and hit small goals with high accuracy.
The robot’s flight system is completely wireless and quite light, as it works with external magnetic fields instead of traditional batteries. However, there are currently not only passive flight capability, that is, such as airplanes or advanced drones that can determine their position or direction. Therefore, although the flight can be precisely controlled, for example, environmental changes such as a sudden wind can lead to deviation of the robot from the route.
“We will try to add active control to all allow us to change the robot’s attitude and position in real time,” Wei Yue, a joint writer of the study and a graduate student at Liwei Lin laboratory, said.
This technology in the future, especially in agriculture pollination, precision observation and reconnaissance tasks, such as the potential in areas such as recorded.
