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I don't know about you, but whenever I think about Drones, I always think about those pictures we see of unmanned military aircraft hunting down bad guys on the news. But, as it turns out, there is a lot more going on in the world of drones...

At the Drones and Aerial Robots Conference in New York not long ago, there were some demonstrations of drones that try very hard mimic nature itself -- like Birds and bees.

In the early stages of development was a project at Harvard University called the "Robobees Project."

As presented by Kathik Danthu and Geoff Barrows, the goal of this project is to re-create the unmatched elegance of bees in flight. They want to build a machine that is as good as a bee zipping from one flower to the next. They want it to be able to hover with great stability, just the same as a bee does over a flower.

They also want to mimic the collective behavior and "intelligence" of a bee colony - in other words, learn how to make this little devices fly in a swarm.

Moving up the scale a bit, was Cameron Rose from UC Berkley's Biomimetic Milisystems Lab. He gave a demonstration of a robotic bird called the H2Bird.

Like the "robobees project," this project is focused on the accuracy provided by the re-creation of nature. As the project webpage says, The goal is to harness features of animal manipulation to radically improve millirobot capabilities.

The H2 has a carbon fiber airframe and weighs only 13 Grams...It uses clap and flap wings and has a built in gyroscope! It is controlled by a groundstation and can stream video live...

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So now, if you're like me, you're already asking what are these things good for? How will they be used... Well the scientists creating them have a whole list of applications - that include things like traffic monitoring and "search and rescue..."

But let's be realistic here. With a worldwide revolution in robotic warfare already underway -- and a keen desire by all parties for more accuracy in these machines, you don't think the military is going to take a big interest in this stuff.

You see one of the problems we have today, especially the war on terrorism, is accuracy. In other words, when a military drone goes after a known terrorist gathering, there is always the risk of killing innocent civilians. We don't have any specific figures on this but we know it happens and it happens too often... Now what if these same agencies realized they could send a highly accurate swarm of killer bees into a crowded restaurant and kill only one person there... Do you think they might be interested in that? Uh... I think they would.

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