A robot that can jump into flight like a bird could eliminate the need for runways for small fixed-winged drones. Birds use the powerful explosive force generated by their legs to leap into the ...

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Despite their inability to take to the skies, birds like ostriches, emus, and chickens use their wings—they’re actually vital ...

An insect-inspired robot that only weighs as much as a raisin can perform acrobatics and fly for much longer than any previous insect-sized drone without falling apart. For tiny flying robots to ...

Researchers have developed a bird-like robot that can walk, jump, and hop to fly. The robot or fixed-wing drone can move quickly from the ground into the air with its “avian-inspired” legs ...

the South Korean military is getting serious about deploying mechanical birds, snakes, and other animal-inspired military robots downrange in the next five years, which sounds like a Transformers ...

And unlike existing biomimetic robots that take their cues from high-flying birds, researchers at China’s Shandong University recently built a new, strutting machine inspired by terrestrial avians.

(Program not available for streaming.) Drones. These unmanned flying robots–some as large as jumbo jets, others as small as birds–do things straight out of science fiction. Much of what it ...