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Engineers believe a robot bird flying without a tailfin could revolutionise aviation. University of Groningen professor of Biomimetics David Lentink developed the robotic pigeon named PigeonBot II ...

A robot with bird-like legs that can walk, hop, leap and jump for take-off into flight has been designed in Switzerland in an engineering breakthrough that could enable aircraft to operate in ...

Researchers have developed a bird-like robot capable of walking, hopping, and leaping into flight. Named RAVEN (Robotic Avian-inspired Vehicle for multiple Environments), the design features ...

A team of roboticists at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, working with a colleague from the University of California, has designed, built and demonstrated a bird-like robot that can launch ...

Researchers have created a pigeon-inspired robot with bird-like reflexes ... Dutch roll instability and enabled stable, autonomous flight during takeoff, cruising, and landing.

A pigeon-inspired flying robot is solving avian mysteries that may help create more stable aircrafts. While birds seem to seamlessly maintain stability during turbulence, airplanes need rudders ...

RAVEN uses spring-loaded legs for energy-efficient flight. Inspired by crows, it can hop, walk, and launch into the air. Built by EPFL researchers with a fixed-wing design for flying.

as if to stabilise the animal in flight. This has long been thought to be the key to birds’ stability, but now it has been proven by the robotic replica. The researchers programmed a computer to ...