Hummingbird: An Educational Robotics Kit Designed To Get Girls Into Engineering. Though it turns out the kit–which shows that engineering can be a creative and artistic endeavor–helps teach ...

B.J. Balakumar's robotic hummingbird wing isn't as pretty as the real thing. It lacks jewel-like colors and the iridescent glint of hummingbird feathers. But what the unadorned metal wing does ...

Engineers at Purdue have built a flying robot to mimic one of the most expert flyers in the natural world: the hummingbird. Drones wish they could fly with the agility and grace of the biological ...

This is not the first time we've heard about a robotic hummingbird, but they're still a rare enough species to warrant our attention. Japanese researchers at Chiba University near Tokyo have ...

Japanese researchers said Monday they had developed a “hummingbird robot” that can flutter around freely in midair with rapid wing movements.

A Japanese researcher called Hiroshi Liu has developed a robotic hummingbird, which, just a real one, can flutter freely in mid-air by rapidly moving its wings (up to n impressive 30 times per ...