When it comes to copying R2-D2, the best bet seems to be small birds with small brains .

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 ...

European starlings just beat parrots at their own game – copying complex sounds. In a new study by researchers in Amsterdam ...

(Nanowerk News) The first professional robotic birds – like UT and Clear Flight Solutions’ Robird® – have been in the air for a few years now. Yet, the physics of the bird’s flight is not yet ...

Researchers have developed a bird-like robot that can walk, jump, and hop to fly. The robot or fixed-wing drone can move quickly from the ground into the air with its “avian-inspired” legs, according ...

Here’s yet another example of robots stealing our jobs. Over in Arkansas, officials have deployed a robotic bird watcher in order to help locate a bird that may or may not exist. (So that’s where my ...

Taking design inspiration from an ostrich, the BirdBot needs fewer motors than comparable legged robots. A few facts about ostriches: It took just a few million years for terrestrial birds to refine ...

This bird-like robot has a claw that it could use to perch on branches it has flown to. It could potentially be useful for collecting samples in hard-to-reach places or silently observing animals in ...

CLEVELAND, Jan. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- PLP and FulcrumAir have partnered to launch the world's most advanced automated robotic system for installing helically-shaped bird diverters on overhead power ...

Researchers have developed a method that allows a flapping-wing robot to land autonomously on a horizontal perch using a claw-like mechanism. The innovation could significantly expand the scope of ...

If you've never gotten the chance to interact with a bird, you're severely missing out. Birds are easily some of the funniest animals on the planet - especially the ones who can legitimately talk back ...