A laser-microfabricated electrohydrodynamic thruster for centimeter-scale aerial robots.

To date, insect scale robots capable of controlled flight have used flapping-wings for generating lift, but this requires a complex and failure-prone mechanism. A simpler alternative is electrohydrodynamic (EHD) thrust, which requires no moving mechanical parts. In EHD, corona discharge generates a...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Hari Krishna Hari Prasad, Ravi Sankar Vaddi, Yogesh M Chukewad, Elma Dedic, Igor Novosselov, Sawyer B Fuller
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231362