About 2 cm long and weighing just 0.3 grams, the insect-inspired device features two tiny wings and three spindly legs. Its minuscule size would make it difficult to detect using conventional radar systems, experts say.

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    Knowing how stupid and dystopian we can be … I’m going to guess that someone is going to give this little thing a hypodermic needle to deliver a neurotoxin or a virus.

    If we can’t turn it into a spy … we can weaponize it.

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    There are a few companies and universities playing with this kinda stuff, but the ones that are as tiny as that usually have no ability to transmit any data or even record anything from what i have seen. They just fly and thats it.

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    Let’s make our super expensive high tech camera look like something everyone on earth wants to hit and destroy