Researchers are using ultra high-speed cameras to study hummingbird flight, so they can build better flying robots.

Researchers build miniature flying robots, modeled on Drosophila Piezoelectric muscles flap tiny, gossamer wings.

As scientists in the Netherlands tried to figure out how to build a super-agile flying robot, they took inspiration from one of nature's most acrobatic flyers: The humble fruit fly. And by ...

Flying robots made from cellophane? Researchers have discovered that cellulose is a smart material that can flap when exposed to an electric field.

If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the "moment of inertia"—the resistance to angular motion—drops dramatically. Our nano-quadrotor ...

Instead, making a flying spider involves equipping it with more active equipment. The problem is that just packing a multi-legged robot with enough servo motors and batteries to crawl around on ...

Sure, someone could actually teach the robot how to fly by itself, in which case it would be able to control the trajectory, but the fans would still spread dust everywhere. Creating the device ...

The way bats rapidly flap their wings in flight could inspire new designs of flying robots, according to a new study.

Flying robots that play the James Bond theme song? Micro-robots powered by bacteria? A car that drives itself? They may sound like works of science-fiction, but Vijay Kumar of Penn's General ...

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