Category: insect

This tiny robotic beetle travels for two hours without a battery

Post author By Randall
Post date August 21, 2020
Categories In autonomous, Battery, biomimicry, bot, gear, insect, methanol, microrobot, muscles, News, robeetle, robot, robotics, Tech, tomorrow, university of southern california, untethered, usc

[ad_1] The system’s “catalytic artificial micro-muscle” is made with a nickel-titanium (NiTi) shape-memory alloy (SMA), a wire that shrinks and expands with temperature changes. That wire is coated with platinum, and when the platinum interacts with RoBeetle’s methanol fuel, a combustion reaction generates heat. The temperature changes cause a tiny vent to slide back and […]

App allows citizen scientists to track monarch butterfly migration

Post author By Randall
Post date August 16, 2019
Categories In app, butterflies, butterfly, citizen scientists, collector for arcgis, database, decline, east coast, extinction, gear, gis, green, insect, migration, model, monarch, population, prediction, Research, Tech, testing, tracking, validation

[ad_1] According to the researchers, monarch butterflies conduct one of the most dramatic migrations in the world. Each fall, the monarchs in New England turn south and begin a 3,000-mile journey to their overwintering grounds. But like all insects, monarchs are dwindling. The number that complete that long migration has fallen by 90 percent in […]