1.5gram Gliding Robot doing Phototaxis (video)

This 22cm, 1.5gram gliding robot can autonomously detect and fly towards a light source. Its tail is acutated using a novel 0.2gram Shape Memory Alloy (muscle wire) acutator. For more inforamation about its context and other bioinspired jumping and flying robots, please visit http://lis.epfl.ch/microglider