France's military is developing the "BIOFLY" project, utilizing bird-mimicking drones with flapping wings for enhanced stealth and camouflage in military applications. These lightweight drones, based ...

Festo, a leading manufacturer of pneumatic equipment based in Germany, has announced the BionicSwift, a bird robot capable of autonomous flight. It looks like it's flying like a real bird, and it ...

Four flapping-wing drones developed by a research team at the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), which feature eagle, pigeon, butterfly and beetle imitations, have recently gained ...

Four years ago we told you about the MetaFly, a remote-control flapping-wing flying model insect made by French startup Bionic Bird (which did previously release a model bionic bird). Well, the ...

(Nanowerk News) Engineers have long sought to unlock the secrets behind insects' uncanny flight abilities and agility in hopes of creating a new class of tiny yet capable flying robots. These flapping ...

A bionic aircraft, developed by researchers at China's Northwestern Polytechnical University, broke the Guinness World Record for flight time of a flapping-wing drone on a single battery charge last ...

BEIJING, Feb. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Hanvon, a Chinese leading manufacturer of intelligent pattern recognition technologies and products, will showcase its Smart Bionic Flapping Wings Mini RC Flying ...

Flapping robot birds complete with plumes of fake feathers have been designed to show how lightweight materials are capable of powering semi-autonomous flight technology. The winged drones, based on ...

At first glance, it looks like any other bird gliding through the air. However, it fact this groundbreaking gadget is actually a bionic bird controlled by an app. It can fly upto 100m away from its ...

Those windup toy birds have received a modern makeover, and it is called the Bionic Bird. This device looks like a bird and flies like a bird — flapping wings included — and is controlled using a ...

April 27, 2009 The latest example of biomimicry in robotics to cross our desk is from German electrical automation company Festo, which has used the shape of the acquatic, flightless bird to construct ...