“As the crow flies” is a common idiom referring to the shortest distance between two points, but the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS), led by Dario Floreano, in EPFL’s School of Engineering has ...

I’m not saying you should go crowdfund a Bionic Bird X-Fly, as you’ll hear in my hands-on video below. I’m just saying that biomimetic ornithopters are surprisingly fun — and way less disruptive than ...

Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have unveiled a nee robotic drone named Raven (Robotic Avian-inspired Vehicle for multiple ENvironments), inspired by the agile ...

Members of China’s Jiaolong Commandos, a maritime special operations units, are seen using multiple types of bird-like drones in newly emerged videos. The scenes may look ripped straight from a ...

Experience the remarkable capabilities of the Bionic Bird, an advanced ornithopter drone that redefines flight simulation. Watch as this lightweight, flapping wing drone demonstrates exceptional ...

Drone aircraft are no longer curiosities—they're widely used in recreation, transportation, and even warfare. Most of these flying machines use rotary-wing quadcopter designs, which allow them to take ...

Above Missouri's wetlands, a drone quietly hums above flocks of migratory water birds, its camera capturing the ripples of movement below. With this technology, University of Missouri researchers are ...

This is pretty cool! I appreciate how dramatic the audio is on the slow-motion video clip in the article. The Mars atmosphere is so thin (0.007 bar) that a conventional fixed wing aircraft would need ...