To improve the next generation of insect-size flying machines, Johns Hopkins engineers have been aiming high-speed video cameras at some of the prettiest bugs on the planet. By figuring out how ...

Thanks to the engineers at Australia’s National University (ANU), the idea of flying butterflies powering the future was brought to the fore. Based on the wings of the Blue Morpho Didius butterfly, ...

A group of Japanese researchers have succeeded in building a fully functional replica model -- an ornithopter -- of a swallowtail butterfly, and they have filmed their model butterfly flying. A group ...

Engineers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland are studying how butterflies flutter to help design bug-size airborne robots that can mimic those manoeuvres to carry out reconnaissance, ...