Robotic insect drones are here!

Battery technology has not caught up, so it's wired. Too bad really.

http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/press-releases/pop-up-flying-robots

that is very very cool

Shoot. My kids are already playing with that stuff.

http://www.hexbug.com/

I've had one for years, I can fly it any time the wind is calm:

http://www.wowwee.com/en/products/toys/flight/flytech/dragonfly

Well it's really forward thinking, but I've read one day they will have drones that are the size of a house fly.

Microscopic nuclear bombs? Quick, someone write a doomsday novel about it!

Ah, so the article is about mass producing pop-up technology. OK. Cause as others have said, bug sized robotic drones have been around for many years, decades in fact.

Check this out:

http://www.botjunkie.com/2011/02/09/this-robotic-dragonfly-flew-40-years-ago/

Runs on a teeny-tiny gasoline engine!

I for one welcome our tiny robot overlords