Day: April 11, 2025

Rayshubskiy lab “fly microbots” paper published in PNAS and featured in Ars Technica

Image credit: Mark Belan

Rowland Fellow Sasha Rayshubskiy and his team have turned ordinary fruit flies into remarkably controllable “micro-robots.” – without a single gear or circuit board in sight. Rather than building tiny robots from scratch, the team takes advantage of a fruit fly’s built-in reflexes. Their new study, published in PNAS, and featured on the technology news…