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Kevin Yufeng Chen
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Kevin Chen, an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, envisions a time when his insect-sized drone could be used as a search and rescue robot to find survivors in disaster debris that bigger drones couldn t reach. Kevin Yufeng Chen
The reason it s so hard to kill a mosquito is that they move
really well.
Scientists are trying to build a robot with that kind of agility. And these tiny but mighty flying robots could be used in life-and-death situations, such as finding people in a collapsed building.
Kevin Chen says he spends a lot of time looking at the flapping-wing physics, that is understanding how an insect can flap their wings and generate lift and drag forces.