Robotic lightning bugs take flight | MIT News

Robotic lightning bugs take flight | MIT News

Fireflies that light-weight up dusky backyards on heat summer evenings use their luminescence for interaction — to draw in a mate, ward off predators, or entice prey. These glimmering bugs also sparked the inspiration of experts at MIT. Taking a cue from nature, they crafted electroluminescent gentle artificial muscular tissues for traveling, insect-scale robots. The