The smallest flapping wing plane with camera in the world. Bart Remes and his team at the Technical University of Delft have just produced the smallest-ever flapping wing robot (ornithopter) with a built-in camera.
With a wingspan of just 10 centimetres, the DelFly could easily be confused with a real dragonfly. Here's a video of it in action, the small box in the bottom righthand corner of the video gives a DelFly's eye view of the world.
The 'dragonfly' has a tiny camera (about 0.5 grams) on board that transmits its signals to a ground station. The camera transmits TV quality images, and therefore allows the DelFly II to be operated from a computer. It can be manoeuvred using a joystick as if the operator was actually in the cockpit of the aircraft. The aim is to be able to do this with the DelFly Micro too.
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