The world's smallest camera mounted aircraft

Scientists at the Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) said they have successfully built the world's smallest camera-mounted aircraft with a flight-like dragonfly.

DelFly Micro aircraft weighs only 3 g, 10 cm wingspan, is remotely controlled. It can be used to spy on dangerous or hard-to-penetrate war zones.

DelFly Micro is a form of MAV (Micro Air Vehicle), can be remotely controlled, with camera and image recognition software. It is the latest version of DelFly I (2005) and DelFly II (2006), which can fly at 5 m / sec.

Delfly Micro "dragonfly" plane

Scientists hope that in the near future, they will be able to build DelFly Nano (weighs 1 g and 5 cm wingspan) based on DelFly Micro platform and can operate automatically based on image recognition software .