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MICROFLIER    

24th September, 2021 Science and Technology

 

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Context

  • North-Western University engineers have created an electronic microchip with the capability of flight.

 

About

  • About the size of a grain of sand, the new flying microchip (or “microflier”) does not have a motor or engine.
  • Instead, it catches flight on the wind — much like a maple tree’s propeller seed — and spins like a helicopter through the air toward the ground.
  • These microflier as the “smallest-ever human-made flying structures”.

 

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/winged-microchip-is-smallest-human-made-flying-structure-7530545/