Controlled Flight of a Biologically Inspired, Insect-Scale Robot

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2013-05-03

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/science.1231806PMID 23641114
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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