Scientists at EPFL have developed Raven, a lightweight, bird-inspired robotic drone capable of walking, hopping, and flying ...

A robot bird that can walk, hop, leap and jump for take-off into flight has been designed in an engineering breakthrough that ...

However, birds don’t need a vertical fin, which raises the question: how do they do it? David Lentink, Professor of Biomimetics at the University of Groningen, has developed a robotic bird model ...

A pigeon-inspired robot has solved the mystery of how birds fly without the vertical tail fins that human-designed aircraft rely on. Its makers say the prototype could eventually lead to passenger ...

Though known only from a shinbone fragment, a newly-described flesh-eating terror just might be the largest known member of its feathered kind. Phorusrhacid 'terror ...

Skeleton of the terror bird Titanis walleri at the Florida Museum of Natural History. (Amanda via Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic) (CN ...

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A team of roboticists at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, working with a colleague from the University of California, has designed, built and demonstrated a bird-like robot that can launch ...

A.I.'m Like A Bird!' Scientists Build Robotic Raven. Scientists in Switzerland have built a revolutionary robot raven that leaps into flight like a bird. They hope that one day the design could ...