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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

A Chinese university has developed a bionic flapping flight vehicle with a 123-minute continuous flight duration. This was reported by The Xinhua News Agency. The bionic flight vehicle, developed by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Insects in nature not only possess amazing flying skills but also can attach to and climb on walls of various materials. Insects that can perform flapping-wing flight, climb on a wall, and switch ...