Hitchcock's frozen dismembered head down in the bunker? You doubt it? Your naivety sickens me!

Another entry in the "Evil Avian Robot" chronologue. Humming Birds, an age old symbol of innocence and whimsy, being darkly mirrored and roughly inverted and by our own tax dollars no less. In the continuing effort to leave no slime-slick stone unturned in the effort to remake the wonders of nature into ever more myriad bad-bots; check out this saucy little number. For a color? I'd say pink; like the flesh it will, undoubtedly, one day rend.

"Military-backed researchers have built a tiny drone that looks and flies like a hummingbird, flapping its little robotic wings to stay in the air. So far, the mock bird, built for Pentagon mad-science division Darpa, has only stayed aloft for 20 seconds at a time. But that short flight was enough to show the potential of a whole new class of miniature spies, inspired by nature. Darpa just handed AeroVironment, makers of the winged “nano air vehicle,” another $2.1 million to build a hummingbot 2.0.

Ultimately, Darpa program manager Todd Hylton says in a statement, he’d like see “an approximately 10-gram aircraft that can hover for extended periods, can fly at forward speeds up to 10 meters per second, can withstand 2.5-meter-per-second wind gusts.” He also wants the nano air vehicle to operate inside buildings, and be controllable from up to a kilometer away."

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Full Story at, the delightful, WIRED Magazine Danger Room