Festo, a company that specializes in automation technology, has recently announced its new robot, and boy is it awesome. I present to you the BionicOpter, a robotic firefly. Incredibily enough, current prototype looks identical to the real insect. Although it seems almost too good to be true (all things consdiered, it has only been a day after April Fools), this is a real thing. Furthermore, the flight patterns of this robot are very similar to those of an actual firefly.
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Although the BionicOpter may seem rather small, it is actually nearly 45 centimeters in length; if you were to see one outside, you could easily tell the difference between the Opter and a regular insect. The firefly is made out of carbon-fiber, and a special ARM chipset serves as the bots' "brains."
Here is a video of the thing in motion:
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