{"id":502,"date":"2020-03-09T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/airlab\/wordpress\/?page_id=502"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:57:18","slug":"media","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/airlab\/media\/","title":{"rendered":"Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Press<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2025) A new sensor for insect-sized flying robots<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.me.washington.edu\/news\/article\/2025-07-14\/new-sensor-system-insect-robots\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.me.washington.edu\/news\/article\/2025-07-14\/new-sensor-system-insect-robots\">ME News<\/a>,  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cs.washington.edu\/2025\/07\/30\/allen-school-undergraduates-make-big-contributions-to-autonomous-flying-robots-with-tinysense\/\">Allen School News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2024) I Am CSE (Kyle Johnson)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tyOcyn2LuIw\">Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>(2023) <\/strong>Solar-powered origami sensors deployed by drone <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/drone-surveying-microfliers\">IEEE Spectrum<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2023\/09\/these-solar-powered-origami-inspired-robots-can-change-shape-mid-flight\/\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2022)<strong> Biologically-inspired sensor suite for gnat-sized robots<\/strong><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tiny-robot\">IEEE Spectrum<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-04161-x\">Nature Research Highlight<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2022-12-gyroscope-free-efficiently-flight-insect-size-robots.html\">TechXplore<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>(2022) Cyborg Robotic Insects<\/strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/10\/08\/robot-bugs-cyborg-cockroaches-robot-flys\/\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2022) Applying Insect Intelligence to micro-robots<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/we.discover.uw.edu\/v\/NTI3LUFIUi0yNjUAAAGFfKfdPnN72ls5XgY1ejtSOw3LJxCRdLpJtZBPt8XS-IJlzH81uyp_27DwRpmETEUHPgfY-N8=\">UW Today<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.me.washington.edu\/news\/article\/2022-06-24\/applying-insect-intelligence-micro-robots?utm_source=UW_News_Subscribers&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=UW_Today_secondary&amp;mkt_tok=NTI3LUFIUi0yNjUAAAGFfKfdPsU1ZPuMka5_AtPsJPlIeAImwZ-GYWo2XPsuTFqaZ5YDiL2ewc4IhBGZbwWMpD-SF-s7DZVn4fpxxiFSTwZJ-erWwixsgYu6VFjA\">ME News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2021) The Smellicopter is an obstacle-avoiding drone that uses a live moth antenna to seek out smells <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2020\/12\/07\/smellicopter-avoids-obstacles-uses-live-moth-antenna-to-smell\/\">UW<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/12\/07\/this-tiny-drone-uses-an-actual-moth-antenna-to-sniff-out-target-chemicals\/\">Tech Crunch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2020\/smellicopter-takes-flight-uw-moth-antenna-drone-fly-toward-smells-avoid-obstacles\/\">Geekwire<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2020) \u2018GoPro\u2019 for beetles: engineers create a wireless robotic camera that can ride atop an insect<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/07\/15\/us\/beetle-tiny-cameras-scli-scn-intl\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/15\/891563649\/researchers-create-a-tiny-camera-to-be-carried-by-beetles\">NPR<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-53445772\">BBC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/robotics-hardware\/uw-micro-camera\">IEEE Spectrum<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2020) Intro to Autonomous Robotics with the Crazyflie<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitcraze.io\/2020\/07\/intro-to-autonomous-robotics-with-the-crazyflie\/\">bitcraze blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2020) Meet the Autonomous Insect Robots That Will One Day Swarm the Skies<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XZKAGEV7bw0\">Seeker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2020) Land, air, and water surface locomotion on UW Robofly<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2020-01-robofly-insect-sized-robot-drift-surfaces.html\">TechXplore<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2020) Laser-microfabricated electrohydrodynamic thruster<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ion-robot\/\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2019) Four-winged robot fly<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/robotics-hardware\/for-micro-robot-insects-four-wings-may-be-better-than-two\">IEEE Spectrum<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2018) First liftoff of an untethered (wireless) robot fly<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/science-and-technology\/2018\/05\/15\/the-worlds-lightest-wireless-flying-machine-lifts-off\">Economist<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/this-insect-sized-flying-robot-is-powered-by-lasers\/\">Wired<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/robotics-hardware\/laser-powered-robot-insect-achieves-lift-off\">IEEE Spectrum<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/robofly-save-climate\">Popular Science<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Open-source releases and project pages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2009&#8211;present) Python Control Systems Library<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/python-control.readthedocs.io\/\">website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/python-control\/python-control\">code<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/airlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fuller_greiner_moore_murray_vanpaassen_yorke_python_control_cdc21-compressed.pdf\">pdf<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pypistats.org\/packages\/control\">download stats<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2025) Microfabricated multi-axis torque sensor<\/strong>  <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/aaron-weber-314\/FIR-Flexured-Gimbal\">drawings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2025) Tinysense, a visual-inertial avionics system for insect-sized robots<\/strong>  <a href=\"https:\/\/jtran-uw.github.io\/TinySense\/\">website<\/a>,  <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/JTran-UW\/TinySense\">code and data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2023) Solar origami gliding sensors<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/origamifliers.cs.washington.edu\/\">website<\/a>,  <a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/records\/8247362\">code, data, and drawings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2022) Flying gnat robot simulator <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sawyerbfuller\/robognat_simulator\"> code<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2022) Source seeking in a palm-sized drone<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/airlab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/solar_crazyflie_compressed.pdf\">pdf<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/thecountoftuscany\/crazyflie-run-and-tumble\">web site with code<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2021) Solar recharging of a palm-sized drone<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/thecountoftuscany\/solar-crazyflie\">web site with code and circuit files<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2018) Wireless robot fly<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/airlab\/Wireless_RoboFly.html\">web site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Lab Youtube channel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0LbB6I7h5y2pYeeSVJz48A\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0LbB6I7h5y2pYeeSVJz48A<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press (2025) A new sensor for insect-sized flying robots ME News, Allen School News (2024) I Am CSE (Kyle Johnson) Youtube (2023) Solar-powered origami sensors deployed by drone IEEE Spectrum, Ars Technica (2022) Biologically-inspired sensor suite for gnat-sized robots IEEE Spectrum, Nature Research Highlight, TechXplore (2022) Cyborg Robotic Insects Washington Post (2022) Applying Insect Intelligence 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