Almost all of us have wished at one time or another to be a fly on the wall-but nobody wants to get swatted. A safer option might be to command a fleet of intelligent flies that could seek out and report critical information while we stay safely removed from danger. With that idea in mind, engineers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory are now developing a micro air vehicle-a semi-autonomous spy plane small enough to hold in the palm of your hand.

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