Nashville Zoo flamingos reveal the oddball birds generate many types of vortices to eat. The swirls could be an inspiration to human engineers.

Even common birds—pigeons on ledges, sparrows in hedges—do not rest fully. Their tendon-locking perching mechanism keeps them ...

In suburban Sydney, sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) previously figured out how to break into garbage bins and ...

In this article, we report the design and the control system of an all servo-driven bird-like flapping-wing aerial robot called USTBird. Different from most common flapping mechanisms combining gear ...

The X Fly’s propulsion system is modeled after the mechanics of bird flight, combining efficiency with power. Its third-generation wing-flapping mechanism works alongside an extended wingspan to ...

The mechanism was powered by a standard ... not with their legs. With flapping wings, this is going to be a really bird-like robot,” Shin claims. All this is intended to prepare RAVEN for ...

Now the big bird's wings are free to move again ... They also discovered the flapping mechanism — built 83 years ago using automobile parts and other spare equipment — was working just ...

Designed to flap its wings just like a bird ... a new cone crank mechanism. Chinese media has also reported that the “Small Falcon” ornithopter can fold its wings while flapping them, fold ...

The robotic bird's nimble flight controls were made possible by the invention of a new crank mechanism, the report said, allowing the drone to fold its wings while flapping at the same time.

The Small Falcon ornithopter achieves this through a novel cone crank mechanism ... adjust wing-flapping speed, and lock its wings for gliding. These design features grant the Small Falcon agility and ...

A bird flapping its wings while in flight is accompanied ... through the development of a completely new type of cone crank mechanism, CCTV reported. With a series of designs, which are optimized ...