Flapping-wing ornithopter drones may potentially be more agile and energy-efficient than their fixed-wing counterparts, but most of them still can't loiter in one spot. A new model addresses that ...

I’m really amazed by this video, because I always dreamed about doing this. Watch Dutch mechanical engineer Jarno Smeets take off and fly just by flapping wings of his own invention—like a real bird!

A Chinese team of scientists has redesigned the Robo Falcon robot falcon, which was developed in 2021, so that it can now take off like a real bird and also fly more slowly. To achieve this, the ...

XI'AN -- In a breakthrough for bio-inspired robotics, a team of Chinese engineers has designed a robot that flaps its wings and is capable of autonomous takeoff, much like a bird. Named RoboFalcon2.0, ...