{"id":581495,"date":"2010-05-21T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2010\/05\/21\/4351097-flight-of-the-robo-butterfly"},"modified":"2010-05-21T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T23:30:00","slug":"flight-of-the-robo-butterfly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581495","title":{"rendered":"Flight of the robo-butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An artificial butterfly takes wing in a video from the Institute of Physics.<\/p>\n<p>Why a robo-butterfly? Some robotics experts build buglike or birdlike machines, also known as entomopters and ornithopters, to serve as tiny airborne spies. Japanese researchers had a different purpose in mind: Harvard&#8217;s Hiroto Tanaka and the University of Tokyo&#8217;s Isao Shimoyama wanted to figure out how actual\u00a0swallowtail butterflies navigate through the air.<br \/>\nYou see, because\u00a0the swallowtails&#8217; forewings partly overlap their hind wings, they\u00a0don&#8217;t have as m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artificial butterfly takes wing in a video from the Institute of Physics. Why a robo-butterfly? Some robotics experts build buglike or birdlike machines, also known as entomopters and ornithopters, to serve as tiny airborne spies. Japanese researchers had a different purpose in mind: Harvard&#8217;s Hiroto Tanaka and the University of Tokyo&#8217;s Isao Shimoyama wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}