Electronic brain for helicopters

Over the years studying the brains of flying insects, scientists have built a tiny helicopter with an electronic brain that works similarly to how insects work.

(Photo: TTO) Insects and other animals can park and fly at the appropriate height, though they do not have the tools complicated that people equip pilots, and this is also the goal that Scientists want to look forward to.

The tiny helicopter with a new electronic brain weighs about 200 milligrams, simulating how the flies fly with only two or three neurons. Franceschini's team attached the electronic brain to a small helicopter that was about the size of a shoebox. The helicopter is equipped with an image sensor and is tethered to a needle and free to fly around a point.

Scientist Nicolas Franceschini of the French Center for Scientific Research and colleagues at the University of the Mediterranean studied insect brain engineering more than 30 years ago. During this time, they built dozens of robots with the insect's nervous system.

"Helicopters work very much like insects," says Franceschini. 'It never falls. Once we have thoroughly researched this brain, we will use it for self-guided planes. '

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