Watch this robotic fruit fly swoop, dive and perform impressive flips

A new flying robot called DelFly has flapping wings and can dodge a swatting hand with as much agility as a fruit fly. DelFly has two thin plastic wings on each side of its body, inspired by a fruit fly. Though it's 55 times bigger than an actual fruit fly, DelFly can do all the same aerial acrobatics. It can even perform 360-degree flips – a move flies never seem to do. Flies perform agile evasive motion when trying to escape a threat, such as a predator or an incoming flyswatter. One particularly nimble move they perform is called a banked turn, and involves tilting their bodies to perform a sharp change in direction.