Researchers have unveiled a bird-shaped robot that can hop, walk and leap into flight just like a raven. The new machine, ...

Researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have designed an innovative crewless aerial vehicle that ...

Their Robotic Avian-inspired Vehicle for multiple ENvironments (RAVEN) trades traditional landing gear for a pair of bird-inspired articulated legs that allow the drone to walk around, hop over ...

Inspired by the proportions of bird legs (and lengthy observations of crows on EPFL's campus), Shin designed a set of custom, multifunctional avian legs for a fixed-wing drone. He used a ...

John Michael Dahm, a senior resident fellow for aerospace at the Mitchell Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, ...

This new drone takes its inspiration from birds, which, as you may have noticed, have both legs and wings. Engineers have considered adding legs to help fixed-wing drones get airborne, but such ...

Artificial Flight: Modern drones have become pretty advanced, but they are very energy-inefficient. European researchers decided to take inspiration from birds to develop a new type of drone that ...

Birds use their hindlimbs for a range of functions such as walking, hopping, leaping, and jumping into flight – capabilities that may be useful for aerial robots and drones. But creating such a ...