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Video: Pentagon’s Robo-Hummingbird Flies Like the Real Thing 
Wired | by Noah Shachtman | Thu, Jul 2
Military-backed researchers have built a tiny drone that looks and flies like a hummingbird, flapping its little robotic wings to stay in the air. So far, the mock bird, built for Pentagon mad science division Darpa, has only stayed aloft for twenty seconds at a time. But that short flight w...
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