From houseflies to honeybees, insects inspire us with flight skills just beyond the grasp of our technology. Z. Jane Wang, a professor at Cornell University, is working to close this gap between inspiration and implementation. Wang’s recent work is on dragonflies, and here she has found some
I maybe dreaming but, my idea of making the dragon fly MAV will be to fuse organic and mechanical components to produce a feasible flying insect. If the organic part can supply energy in the same way that dragon fly uses its muscular energy, i think it would be next step to evolution, the only problem is how to nourish the organic part so that it produce/recharge energy. Who knows, if its feasible, maybe can make a large organic material that forms muscles which you then attach mechanical wings and then u stimulate the organic muscles so that a flapping motion can be achieved or something… Organic, replenishable energy, is that even possible?
