robotic wing (IMAGE)

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robotic wing

Caption

Collaborators at the University of Colorado Boulder created a robotic wing made of plastic and cardboard laminate to study the mechanism by which fruit flies compensate for wing damage in flight.

Credit

Provided by Kaushik Jayaram

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