In 2021, a group of scientists from China engineered the RoboFalcon—a bird-inspired flapping-wing robot with a newly engineered mechanism made to drive bat-style morphing wings capable of flight.

Taking design inspiration from an ostrich, the BirdBot needs fewer motors than comparable legged robots. A few facts about ostriches: It took just a few million years for terrestrial birds to refine ...

RoboFalcon 2.0 mimics bird wing motions Robot achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight Wing system couples flapping, sweeping, folding ...

An advancement in robotic flight shows how advanced electronics and reconfigurable mechanisms are enabling machines to mimic the complex wing motions of birds, paving the way for smarter aerial ...

This streamlined design helps keep the robot’s weight to just 600 grams – similar to a crow. The scientists explain: “RAVEN (Robotic Avian-inspired Vehicle for multiple ENvironments), which uses its ...

It’s a robot inspired by a flightless bird, and soon the University of Michigan will begin experimenting with its capabilities. With two legs, backward facing knee-like joints and a short torso, ...

LEONARDO walks and flies to get around. Video shows the 2.5-foot prototype approach and fly over a set of steps, walk a slackline and even ride a skateboard. LEO’s ability to toggle between walking ...

The futuristic machine is part humanoid, part bird, researchers say. In research centers around the world, roboticists have for decades been on a quest to perfect bipedal locomotion in machines.