Today, Harvard's robotic insect spread its wings and took flight.

And, thanks to Professor Robert Wood, our government has a new secret weapon. Take that, Al-Qaeda!

According to the Technology Review, this Harvard project is being funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency "in the hope that it will lead to stealth surveillance robots for the battlefield and urban environments."

A robotic spy fly. How cool is that? Come on, don't be a buzzkill.