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Robotic Fly

January-February 2008

"If I could go back in time and choose again the field I would get into," he says, "it might be a toss-up between engineering and biology."

~Professor Robert Wood, Harvard Microbiotics Lab

From "Tinker, Tailor, Robot, Fly" (January-February 2008):

Small, winged insects have a reputation for accidentally buzzing into closed windows or swooping into your eye during a bike ride. But the research of Robert Wood, assistant professor of engineering and applied sciences, may cause you to look twice at your next fly...

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