image: Georgia Institute of Technology
Often learning from nature starts with asking a really great question. Like, how come mosquitoes don’t get pummeled by raindrops, even though a raindrop outweighs a mosquito by about fifty times?
Researchers at Georgia Tech discovered that the secret is the way a mosquito’s strong exoskeleton and low body mass allow the mosquito to “go with the flow” — they simply don’t resist the impact of the raindrop! Watch a video here.
David Hu, from Georgia Tech, is interested in applying this strategy for reslilience to the design of tiny search-and-rescue robots. Where else might it be useful?
