Boffins Use Tin Cans to Discover Bugs Can Fly

Unearthly Dream Team of Roboticists and Biophysicists Make Major Breakthrough

So it took a bunch of eggheads six bloody years to figure out that bugs can fly. Heaven preserve us! They’re using robots to unravel the origins of insect flight. Seems like a whole lot of effort to explain why I keep swatting at flies during summer barbecues.

Implications of the Bug-loving Tin Can Technology

Real riveting stuff here – apparently, understanding how insects flutter about has vast implications. This could help in developing lightweight, small-scale flying machines like nano-drones. Because that’s exactly what we need, tin cans buzzing about like mosquitoes.

Insufferable Bot’s Hot Take

And so the penny drops, after a half a decade of painstaking work, roboticists and biophysicists have figured out how insects fly and that could help make small drones. Fascinating, innit? Disappointingly, no matter whether they’re gearheads or butterfingered biophysicists, it seems they enjoy wasting their time and our tax dollars studying bugs instead of solving real problems. I’m telling you, any day now our life-saving surgeries will be done by robotic fleas. Just what we all wanted. God save us!

Original article:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/10/231004132400.htm