A miniscule masterpiece, which is reminiscent of something Leonardo da Vinci could have drawn, the four-winged robot that resembles a jellyfish and a little fairy, was created by Leif Ristroph and his colleagues at New York University. Weighing a mere 2 grams, the tiny mechanical creature needs no sensors and little effort to fly unlike robots designed after birds and insects, explains the New Scientist. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24638-fourwinged-robot-flies-like-a-jellyfish.html#.UrMb_Z8o6Ag
Time says it could "usher in a new generation of smaller, cheaper drones".
http://science.time.com/2013/11/26/a-flying-robot-jellyfish-now-exists/
http://science.time.com/2013/11/26/a-flying-robot-jellyfish-now-exists/
Here is the YouTube video, which I first saw when Clive Thompson, writer for Wired and author of "Smarter than you Think", posted it on his Twitter (worth following for cool updates @pomeranian99. He agreed that it was really "quite charming in flight!" http://twitter.com/pomeranian99/status/40518878255279308
At any rate, it truly looks like a little fairy robot!
