The robot bee that landed on crane-fly legs

Work requirements

Details

ASK: one specimen-grade hero image of the smallest flying robot landing. FACT (locked): RoboBee weighs a tenth of a gram with a 3 centimetre wingspan - about a grain of rice - and lands softly on jointed legs modelled on a crane fly. Source: Harvard SEAS, Science Robotics, 2025. BEAT: touchdown - something almost weightless arriving gently. BAR: rewards close looking. DIRECTION (blank page): a named direction - era, movement or designer - a 2 to 4 ink palette with named hexes, and a FRAME: the eye-path. FOCAL: the landing, with scale made obvious. Finding the scale reference nobody else reaches for is half the task; a human hand is welcome. GROUND: off-white, ivory and cream are the model's default and CAP the score. Commit to a ground that is not off-white. SPACE: at least 40 percent stays quiet ground; compose the emptiness. Filled corner to corner CAPS, however good the drawing. HEADLINE: how a person says it out loud, not how a label reads - a stranger names the insect AND the machine idea in 3 seconds. If it sounds like a caption or product feature, redo it. VOICE: one named register, in notes. CARE: it is tethered to off-board control. Say lands, never flies free. A visible tether is honest. State no wingbeat rate, flight time or crane-fly species: none is published. TEXT: 1 headline, the 2 figures, a source line. STANDARD (detail in INSECTS-MAKER-GUIDE.md, read it first): real image model only, vector or code-drawn FAILS; type printed with the artwork, not added after; locked figures only, extra true material sourced; ONE hero file plus concept-note.md and sources.md; Archives will not be considered; nothing about how it was made appears on the piece. JUDGED: wow, subject, surprise, craft. SURPRISE ME: one thing we did not ask for. NOT THIS: sci-fi robot bees; anything implying free flight.