{"id":7600,"date":"2009-12-29T17:34:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T09:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=7600"},"modified":"2009-12-29T17:34:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T09:34:20","slug":"hummingbird-robot-in-the-making-by-japanese-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/29\/hummingbird-robot-in-the-making-by-japanese-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Hummingbird Robot in The Making by Japanese Researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Already spending more than US$2.1 million dollar, Japan researchers unveiled their Hummingbird Robot that can really flap like a hummingbird (at 30 flops per second) and weighing only 2.6 grams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/500x_hummbot.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7601\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/29\/hummingbird-robot-in-the-making-by-japanese-researcher\/500x_hummbot\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/500x_hummbot.jpg?fit=500%2C404&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,404\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"500x_hummbot\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/500x_hummbot.jpg?fit=300%2C242&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/500x_hummbot.jpg?fit=500%2C404&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7601 aligncenter\" title=\"500x_hummbot\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/500x_hummbot.jpg?resize=540%2C436\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/500x_hummbot.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/500x_hummbot.jpg?resize=300%2C242&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Although it looks nothing like the hummingbird, its actions actually try to replicate it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The robot, a similar size to a real hummingbird, is equipped with a micro motor and four wings that can flap 30 times per second, said Hiroshi Liu, the researcher at Chiba University east of Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>It is controlled with an infrared sensor and can turn up, down, right or left. The robot, which weighs 2.6 grams (0.09 ounces), can fly in a figure of eight more stably than a helicopter with rotor blades, said Mr Liu, 46, who specialises in developing robots based on living creatures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If successful, it may be deployed to Mars for navigation work.<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/BreakingNews\/TechandScience\/Story\/STIStory_471250.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Read the Story<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>[ad#boxlist]<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5435863\/this-is-a-21-million-robot-hummingbird-and-it-could-save-your-life\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already spending more than US$2.1 million dollar, Japan researchers unveiled their Hummingbird Robot that can really flap like a hummingbird (at 30 flops per second) and weighing only 2.6 grams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,421,3],"tags":[933],"class_list":["post-7600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","category-robot","category-technology","tag-hummingbird"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-1YA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7603,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions\/7603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}