(March 18, 2015) Gyroscopes
measure rotation in everyday technologies, from unmanned aerial vehicles to
cell phone screen stabilizers.
Though many animals can move with more precision and
accuracy than our best-engineered aircraft and technologies, gyroscopes are rarely
found in nature. Scientists know of just one group of insects, the group
including flies, that has something that behaves like a gyroscope — sensors
called halteres, clublike structures that evolved from wings.