A new type of drone, inspired by the aerial precision of birds of prey, could one day navigate through dense city skyscrapers to deliver our packages or inspect hard-to-reach offshore wind farms, ...

Researchers have discovered that multi-element wings inspired by bird feathers can generate twice as much lift as a ...

Despite the fact that they bang their heads against trees on a daily basis, woodpeckers don't suffer brain injuries. Inspired by the tough-headed birds, scientists have developed a fixed-wing drone ...

The Russian startup Neiry has developed neural implants that can be administered to pigeons to control where they fly. The company has created these biological drones by inserting tiny electrodes ...

John Bird, Ph.D., and Afroza Shirin, Ph.D., stand with a model aircraft used in their research on soaring. With a new grant from DARPA, the two are using insights from bird flight to develop uncrewed ...