Continuous cycles of bending and unfolding produced a flapping motion that could exceed the frequency of actual butterfly wings. The team demonstrated the FBBW in a light-driven whirligig and ...

Back in 2011, Festo created a natural-flight mimicking bionic seagull with flapping wings dubbed SmartBird. The company is now looking to apply similar principles in order to convert wind power ...

Last year European manufacturer Airbus unveiled a small-scale aircraft with flapping wing tips – a concept drawn from the flight of the albatross. AlbatrossONE achieves proof-of-concept on a ...

Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo have developed a method to detect wind direction with 99% accuracy using seven strain gauges on the flapping wing and a convolutional neural network ...

An international team of scientists has taken this approach to produce a bird-inspired drone with flapping wings that can hover, dart, glide and dive, all while weighing the same as two ...

Researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have developed a method to detect wind direction with 99% accuracy using seven strain gauges on the flapping wing and a convolutional neural network model.

How about watching a drone flap its wings on its way to your doorstep? Far from “robotic birds,” flapping drones could use similar techniques as actual birds to improve their performance.

These flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs) hold tremendous promise for search-and-rescue, reconnaissance, and environmental monitoring applications where small size and high maneuverability are ...