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Mosquito-sized drone is designed for Chinese spy missions — military robotics lab reveals incredibly tiny bionic flying robots (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am mostly interested in the battery tech....

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, that and the transmission of data or storage sounds outlandish. Maybe those just have a microphone and aren't trying to record/store video.

How could it even recover if the wind blows..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Transmission of energy requires... energy. Furthermore tiny antennas mean a high frequency, which don't transmit a long way. Not sure we're breaking the laws of physics any time soon, even ignoring energy density limits.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Motors get tiny as shit apparently from what I'm seeing, but the smallest batteries I'm seeing are 0.5 mAh, 3.2 by 2.5 mm.

I see tiny motors that are 3mm by 8mm, and run at 2.7v. Using that motor and battery we are at .00135 watt hours. Realistically you would need 2 of those to make wings work so we would have to half that before we get to discussing controllers.

Yeah i don't know enough about it, I'd have to figure out weights to see if it could theoretically even get off the ground let alone survive a ceiling fan being on