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 ...

COLLEGE PARK, MD--(Marketwired - April 30, 2013) - In this age of advanced technology, how hard could it be to develop a robotic bird that flies by flapping its wings? Despite the apparent simplicity ...

The robot’s developers believe a scaled-up version of the machine could be used in rescue missions and parcel deliveries in remote locations. Researchers have developed a bird-like robot that can walk ...

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 ...

In the early 1990s, a researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology began work on what would become Paro. More than 30 years after its development, the ...

The next time you see that adorable hummingbird at your feeder, remember one thing. It might take your life. Because in this ...

German engineering company Festo has created robotic birds capable of amazingly realistic flight. The firm acknowledges that the robo-birds don't have any business applications yet, but hopes one ...

EDMONTON—Soon planes won’t be the only thing flying at the Edmonton International Airport. Clear Flight Solutions has created the Robird, a remote-controlled robot designed to help keep birds away ...

Two Calgary companies hope a newly developed robot can help reduce bird collisions with power lines in Alberta. Utility AltaLink joined with FulcrumAir, an aerial robotics company, to create an ...

Scientists have developed a robot with legs inspired by the structure and gait of birds, which allows them to use fewer motors and consume less energy than designs inspired by human legs. The next ...

Here’s yet another example of robots stealing our jobs. Over in Arkansas, officials have deployed a robotic bird watcher in order to help locate a bird that may or may not exist. (So that’s where my ...

It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's a robotic falcon. Netherlands-based Clear Flight Solutions said the flight behaviour of the robots is "so indistinguishable from its natural counterpart that other ...