Enhancing insect flight research with a lab-on-cables

Sci Robot. 2020 Aug 26;5(45):eabd7941. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.abd7941.

Abstract

A cable-driven robot that tracks flying insects at close range offers a useful method to study insects in free flight.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Biomechanical Phenomena
  • Equipment Design
  • Feedback, Sensory / physiology
  • Flight, Animal / physiology*
  • Insecta / physiology*
  • Models, Biological
  • Robotics / instrumentation*
  • Video Recording / instrumentation
  • Wings, Animal / physiology