A flying robot that resembles a peregrine falcon can be used to scare away flocks of birds in fields, performing better at this task than a standard drone. RobotFalcon resembles a peregrine falcon ...

"Observing birds closely, I found their jumping take ... as there have been jumping gliding robots, but not jumping flying robots." Where might flying robots be used? Shin said that he believes ...

Stanford University engineers have created a robot bird that can use its feet to perch ... The researchers studied small birds called parrotlets, videoing them flying to and from special perches which ...

(Program not available for streaming.) Drones. These unmanned flying robots–some as large as jumbo jets, others as small as birds–do things straight out of science fiction. Much of what it ...

Like a bumblebee flitting from flower to flower, a new insect-inspired flying robot created by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, can hover, change trajectory and even hit small ...

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Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley have created the world’s smallest flying robot that can be controlled without any wires. This tiny insect-like machine is less than 1 centimeter ...