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

A team of scientists looked for inspiration in nature to create drones that are 10 times more efficient at takeoff.

While his taxidermied bird drones may have gone global, it’s the prospects of going interplanetary that drive Dr. Mostafa ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...