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Seeing inside insects to mimic their movements and build better machines

11/06 13:48 CET

Better understanding how insects move in space and time could provide useful clues for industrial innovation. That is according to scientists at the Institute of Technology in the German city of Karlsruhe, who have developed a process using 3…

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