Insect sized robots can carry items weighing 22 times their own weight

Insect sized robots can carry items weighing 22 times their own weight

Xinhua News Agency, Washington, September 17 (Xinhua) - Researchers from institutions such as Cornell University in the United States have recently developed a robot the size of an insect. This quadruped micro robot can not only crawl and jump, but also carry 22 times its own weight...

The first flower in the world or pollinated by insects

The first flower in the world or pollinated by insects

Science Popularization BaseScience and Technology Daily, Beijing, June 7 (Reporter Liu Xia) Flowering plants appeared on the earth about 145 million years ago. What helped pollinate these earliest flowering plants? Australian scientists published a research paper in the New Botanist magazine on the 5th, stating that the world's first flower may have been pollinated by insects, and that approximately 86% of flowering plants in history have relied on insect pollination...