It’s the flapping mechanism and the haptic controlling system ... Flap some more and start going higher and higher. [Human Bird Wings] Click to expand the image Update: Jamie Hyneman, from ...

Researchers have developed a method that allows a flapping ... using a claw-like mechanism. The innovation could significantly expand the scope of robot-assisted tasks. A bird landing on a branch ...

A new model addresses that limitation by using a claw mechanism to temporarily perch in a bird-like fashion. Named P-Flap (Perching Flapping-Wing Robot), the prototype autonomous ornithopter has a ...

Engineers have designed a robot with flapping wings, which can perform nimble movements in the air, hovering, darting, diving and recovering like a bird or an insect. Humans have been trying to ...

Based on the aerobatic maneuvers of the swift, an international research team created a "flapping wing" aircraft ... efficiently up to a perch like a bird." "Currently multirotor drones hover ...

Four years ago we told you about the MetaFly, a remote-control flapping-wing flying model insect made by French startup Bionic Bird (which ... an upgraded flapping mechanism which allows it ...

Hassanalian and his colleagues have combined taxidermy bird parts with artificial flapping drone mechanisms to mimic the general appearance and motions of living birds more closely. They have done ...

One generates a flapping motion; the other helps the bird glide with straight wings ... aviation technology regardless of their flight mechanisms. The drones’ batteries allow them to fly ...

A new flapping wind turbine ... modeled on articulations of the only bird capable of sustained hovering–the hummingbird. Tyer Wind has replicated the mechanism that allows hummingbirds to ...