The Flying robot

Japan's Chiba University professor Hiroshi Ryu displays the flying robot, which fluters its wings 35 times a second like a humming bird, at his laboratory in Chiba city, suburban Tokyo on December 28, 2009. (AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

The hummingbird robot, 10cm in length and weighing only 2.6g, has four plastic-made wings, driven by a micro actuator which enables it to fly in all directions freely by an infrared controler. (AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

Japan's Chiba University professor Hiroshi Ryu displays the flying robot, which fluters its wings 35 times a second like a humming bird, at his laboratory in Chiba city, suburban Tokyo on December 28, 2009.  (AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)