couple of years, we can on the water surfaces such as
imagine a future where these water striders and to control
tiny robots can change our the mosquito breeding.
lives.
With all these developments
Although today is an era of we come to a question that
drones, these robot insects where the limitation of this
are much ahead of drones development is. Simply
since they are less noticeable, these robot insects can be
less noisy and more versatile. developed in a range from
Drones cannot access small rescuing a man in a wrecked
places and they cannot reach building to killing a man
a destination without being by one voice command in
detected by people. But the future. Since there is no
Robot insects have overcome limitation for the technology,
these obstacles and these it is totally the responsibility
tiny insects can reach even a of the engineers to use the
building which is wrecked due powerful technology only for
to an earthquake. Therefore, the betterment of mankind
engineers believe that these without
destroying
the
robots will fulfill a great balance of nature.
task in search and rescue
missions. Since these robots
are less noticeable compared
to a drone, they will be the
future spying machines in
military operations. When we
consider the real insects, most
of them directly contribute to
the pollination. Therefore,
these robot insects can also
be used to take support for
agricultural purposes. By
implementing different kinds
of sensors on the robot insect,
they can be used for various
tasks such as implementing
chemical sensors to discover
methane leaks. Furthermore,
Engineers predict that they
can be used for environmental
monitoring, space exploration
and forming communication
networks too. Also, now the
engineers try to develop
these robot insects to travel
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(2). The first wireless flying ro-
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D.Sajini Ishanthi,
2nd Year- Department of
Computer Engineering
Faculty of engineering,
University of Peradeniya.