Flapping-wing drones may be more agile and energy-efficient than their fixed-wing counterparts, ... A new model addresses that limitation by using a claw mechanism to perch in a bird-like fashion.

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 ...

The study, presented recently at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SciTech 2023 Forum, incorporates dead birds into flapping-wing drones, and may also enable spying on people ...

As a result, a high classification accuracy of 99.5% was achieved using the strain data with the length of a flapping cycle. Even with shorter data length of 0.2 flapping cycles, the ...

"By using 3D flapping and aerodynamic simulators, limits of aerodynamic flapping characteristics could be set for the drone for a specific set of wings," the authors wrote in a summary of the paper.

“This allowed the implementation of flapping mechanisms and testing of the aerodynamics of the flapping wing drone.” A lifelike robo-bird zombie could have some serious, real-world applications.

Four years ago we told you about the MetaFly, a remote-control flapping-wing flying model insect made by French startup Bionic Bird (which did previously release a model bionic bird). Well, the ...

Flapping-wing drones ... flapping drone mechanisms to mimic the general appearance and motions of living birds more closely. They have done flight tests with two look-alike bird ...

Researchers say these findings support passive wing mechanisms and present a new design principle for flapping-wing microrobots in confined spaces. The details of the team’s research were ...