by At first glance, the tiny object – hardly as large as a human fingernail – looks like a toy. It resembles a mosquito, it has two yellow, leaf -like wings, a black vertical body and three Haardunic legs.
However, the apparatus in question, which was developed by scientists at a university in the Chinese province of Central Hunan, is anything but toys: it is a new drone with a variety of military and civil applications.
In a video published by China’s state media over the weekend, one of the scientists is kept a model of the “mosquito -like kind of robot”, of which he says that “he is suitable for clarifying information and special missions on the battlefield”.
Experts informed the Telegraph that the size of the drone could make it difficult to operate on the battlefield, but have many valuable and possibly dangerous uses for collecting information.
“If China is able to produce drones in mosquito size, it would probably be interested in using them for various intelligence, surveillance and educational tasks, especially in places where larger drones for access such as indoor areas,” said Sam Bresick, a research member in the center of Georgetown’s Center for Security and Upstream.
“These drones could be used to pursue individuals or listen to conversations,” he added.
Smaller drones are much calmer and less visible to the exposure to the exposure, which could enable them to avoid recognition and to enter secure and limited locations without being noticed, such as “secret services or safe state institutions,” said Timothy Heath, a high -ranking defense researcher and China expert at the Rand Corporation in the USA.
Many safe facilities have technology to block the wireless transmissions. Even if the drone fits through a crack into a window, it may not receive any commands that are once inside.
However, the use of these microdrons could also extend beyond the defense purposes if they were made available to the public.
“People could use the drones to spy on their neighbors or individuals.
However, the size of the drone currently limits the technology that it can wear. For example, they would use very small batteries that would have to be charged regularly.
You could only wear tiny sensors, which means that the operator should be nearby.
“In order to spy over a long period of time, someone would have to be ready to constantly promote microron, recharge them and enforce them in addition to the data collected, all within the scope of the target person or the business,” said Heath.
“That is why the drone is less useful for battlefields, but more useful for special mission operations or spy emissions,” he added.
The drone size in mosquito size are not the first mini or insect-inspired drones on the market.
For more than a decade, scientists from Harvard University have been developing a miniature drone that modeled according to bees that are referred to as robobe.
Similar to the new Chinese drone, the Robobee hardly has the size of a penny with two flat wings and four thin legs. Certain models are able to swim and fly under water.
The applications are similarly far-reaching, including search and rescue operations, surveillance and environmental surveillance.
Also on the market are the palm sizes of black hornet drones used by armies around the world, also in Great Britain and the USA.
Black hornets are larger than the insect-sized drones and resemble a mini helicopter. You can manage some of the surgical challenges of the microdrone and remain discreet at the same time.
The special operations of Ukraine have used black Hornets to clarify in Kursk in 2022 since Russia’s invasion.
