Recent developments in the remote radio control of insect flight

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2010, Pages

  Sato, Hirotaka ^a   Maharbiz, Michel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain machine interface (BMI); Cyborg insect; Insect flight; Micro air vehicle (MAV); telemetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883095104     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2010.00199     Document Type: Review

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