News Summary

• MIT's tiny AI-powered flying robot can now move almost like an insect, performing rapid turns and 10 flips in just 11 seconds.
• Tiny flying robots may one day help rescuers search for people trapped beneath collapsed buildings after earthquakes.
• Because of their small size, these robotic insects could potentially move through narrow spaces that larger drones cannot enter while avoiding walls, debris, and falling objects.
• Using a two-part control system designed to balance performance with computational efficiency, the researchers increased the robot's speed by about 450 percent and its acceleration by about 250 percent compared with their previous best results.