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If You Don't Get Excited at 1min30sec into this Video . . .

. . . then you're definitely looking at the wrong blog. This is a *fantastic* development in material fabrication; see the robot fly after the jump! (It doesn't do particularly well but, you know what, neither do bees if you're really watching).

(via Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com)

Posted by dave-o on February 19, 2012 05:41 PM |

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David Erik Nelson is a freelance writer and former high school teacher. His fiction has appeared in Asimov's, The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded. He is a contributor to the “Ask the Giant Squid” advice column at Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), a weekly online literary journal.

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