{"id":2181,"date":"2013-05-09T05:35:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T05:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2013-05-09T05:35:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T05:35:19","slug":"sci-tech-a-robot-dragonfly-from-festo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2181","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: A robot Dragonfly from Festo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the amazingly complex flying techniques of a robotic dragonfly called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.festo.com\/cms\/en_corp\/13165.htm\" target=\"_d\">BionicOpter<\/a> developed by the company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.festo.com\/cms\/en_corp\/13165.htm\" target=\"_d\">Festo<\/a> (link via <a href=\"http:\/\/ralphewig.tumblr.com\/post\/49941843727\/dragonfly-watch-this-amazing-video-of-a-robotic\" target=\"_d\">ralph.ewig<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just like its model in nature, this ultralight flying object can fly in all directions, hover in mid-air and glide without beating its wings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nj1yhz5io20?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the amazingly complex flying techniques of a robotic dragonfly called the BionicOpter developed by the company Festo (link via ralph.ewig): Just like its model in nature, this ultralight flying object can fly in all directions, hover in mid-air and glide without beating its wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-zb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18565,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18565","url_meta":{"origin":2181,"position":0},"title":"Videos: TMRO Orbit 12.14 &#8211; &#8220;How we see more of the Universe&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest episode of the TMRO.tv Space webcast program: This week we bring on Dr. Jielai Zhang to talk about Dragonfly Telephoto Array, its unique capabilities, why it was needed and what they have found or hope to find out so far. 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