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Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, Engineering +11

Corona discharge processes

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Unipolar Ions, Engineering, Glow Discharge +17

The First Takeoff of a Biologically Inspired At-Scale Robotic Insect

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Engineering, Biorobotics, Bio-inspired Design +22

Controlled flight of a microrobot powered by soft artificial muscles

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Artificial Muscles, Engineering, Soft Robotics +12

Untethered flight of an insect-sized flapping-wing microscale aerial vehicle

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Aeronautics, Engineering, Aerospace Engineering +4