Reshared post from Laston Kirkland This is about as big as my thumbnail. the technique to make…

Didn't knew it was steerable now.

But checking the Page at Harvard scares me a bit, since i've read +Daniel Suarez "Kill Decision", especially the part about "Programming A Swarm of Micro-Air Vehicles"

http://robobees.seas.harvard.edu/publications/colony

Also check out the Design of the RoboBee, it's freaking amazing. 
Pop-up Fabrication of the Harvard Monolithic Bee (Mobee)

 
Laston Kirkland:

This is about as big as my thumbnail. the technique to make them can be done in large batches, involving layered sheets of material fused together similar to making microchips, or 3d printing. The eventual plan is for the bots to be popped out out these sheets, ready to use, To be included in a swarm of hundreds.

"Open-loop roll, pitch and yaw torques for a robotic bee" by Benjamin M. Finio, and Robert J. Wood, Harvard University