SciShow: How Studying Animals Is Helping Us Make Better Drones

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Content of the Lesson: Drone technology has advanced a lot in the last few decades, but our flying robots still have a lot to learn about navigation, agility, and adaptability from animals that have been flying for millions of years. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-bird-drone.html https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-team-biomimicry-drones-dark.html https://phys.org/news/2019-06-drones-insects.html https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2018-3901 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030645651930292X https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-bats-echolocate-an/ https://dronelife.com/2018/06/28/mit-research-will-make-micro-drones-even-smaller/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5206607/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1000936116300978 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3677165 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Correlations-between-11-a-wing-beat-frequency-vs-wing-semispan-of-various-insects-and_fig7_239414548 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27707903/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/25/is-it-a-bird-is-it-a-bug-no-its-a-biomimetic-microdrone-with-flapping-wings/ https://science.sciencemag.org/content/340/6132/603 https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/agriculture/pollination-drones-assist-ailing-bees/ https://americanbeejournal.com/precision-pollination/ http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/biology/jbasil/documents/COUNTERSHADINGCLASS10.pdf


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