The Bio-Inspired Robot Potentially, one of the most useful applications of biomimetics is the robot. Robots can perform tasks that might be too boring or dangerous for humans, but such robots are extremely difficult to build. Professor Ronald Fearing of the University of California is creating a tiny robot fly that can be used in surveillance 10 or rescue operations. Fearing's fly is a much simplified copy of the real thing. "Some things are just too mysterious and