This tiny robot flies and crawls like a stag beetle

Dubbed the "Picobug" and inspired by a male stag beetle, the compact, 30-gram robot combines the flight of a Dragonfly quadrotor and the crawl of a DASH robot that allows multiple modes of locomotion. It can fly up to 13 miles per hour and skitter across a 10-foot-long table in 19 seconds. The university's GRASP Laboratory released footage of the little robot scuttling across a flat surface, flying over a cinder block, and traveling through tight spaces by flying and crawling simultaneously. Video by PBS NewsHour, footage provided by the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Laboratory. "Because of its small size, the Picobug can explore environments that other robots would not be able to access," Yash Mulgaonkar, a researcher at UPenn's GRASP Laboratory, told IEEE Spectrum.