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https://power2innovate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SEI_174616579.jpg1200800The tobacco hawk moth (Manduca sexta) Jay Ondreicka/Shutterstock Some insects can flap their wings so rapidly that it’s impossible for instructions from their brains to entirely control the behaviour. Building tiny flapping robots has helped researchers shed light on how they evolved to do this. If you flap your arms, each movement happens after your …