A robot with bird-like legs that can walk, hop, leap and jump for take-off into flight has been designed in Switzerland in an engineering breakthrough that could enable aircraft to operate in ...

A bird-inspired robot called RAVEN can walk, hop and jump into flight, an ability that could help people develop fixed-wing drones that can take off and land anywhere By Alex Wilkins 4 December 2024 ...

A team of roboticists at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, working with a colleague from the University of California, has designed, built and demonstrated a bird-like robot that can ...

Engineers create perching bird-like robot Date: December 1, 2021 Source: Stanford University Summary: With feet and legs like a peregrine falcon, engineers have created a robot that can perch and ...

Birds have mastered the art of landing on complex surfaces such as rough, textured tree branches. Now, a new robot developed by Stanford engineers has a useful set of bird-like features such as ...

Robot coyotes built on motorized cars reaching 20 mph are being deployed at military airfields as an innovative solution to ...

The airborne robot can be controlled by using the Flying App, which works just like a remote control. In 2016 a user will be able to control the bird by using a smartwatch and moving your hands.

In fact, bird wings and human arms share some basic structural similarities: a wing has a humerus, radius, and ulna bones, for example.

You're not playing Angry Birds anymore, but robots are A new study from Georgia Tech shows that kids like to teach things to robots more than they do to adults. And that's OK.