Lessons for Tomorrow's Drones

Do bug bio-mechanics hold the key to micro-robot flight?

Yes indeed!! We have a lot to learn from nature (Prakriti (Sanskrit)).

If only we can give up the kind of arrogance that formal engineering degrees generate and instead learn engineering from nature (by observation) as our ancestors did, respecting nature and not working against it, we would not be having "global warming" and ever increasing "Fury of Nature" as a whip lash to inefficient designers, as evident today.

For example, look at all the high powered, low efficiency diesel engined 40 footer trucks (with high block resistance valued containers causing needless drag) in use all over the USA and the "Highly" developed western Europe- contributing in no small measure to CO2 emissions and global warming.

Also, the SUVs driven by single old ladies and underweight, ultra-slim teenaged girls on the American highways, adding to the mucky environment in the name of "personal safety"!!

It may seem that I am grudging the Western "Way of life"- far from it- its high time a mirror was held up to the worst offenders on the planet.

Yes, let us learn to fly as quietly as the birds and as deftly as they alone know how to land gracefully on a tree branch!! If only the arrogant designers can come anywhere near to building air crafts that do not need such elaborate airports with enormously wasteful Mis-Use of land for "Runways".

Let us learn to fly in dense formations without a single Mid-air collision without the help of "Control-Towers" wasting vast quantities of energy!!

On a positive note, quit the convoluted thought processes prevailing presently and adopt means to emulate nature, through Meditation and better tap and utilise the "Embedded" knowledge already given to us by "Prakriti" itself.