Flapping-wing robots that mimic the flight mechanics of birds and insects are closing the control gap with conventional quadrotor drones, according to a cluster of recent peer-reviewed studies.

The Canadian team behind the first sustained flight of an ornithopter flapping wings-powered aircraft believes the prospect of a manned craft is now real, despite video evidence showing the ...

The airplane which is most frequently seen now is the one that the main wing does not move and fly with lift, but the airplane of the movie introduced this time is trying to fly by flapping the wing ...

The history of manned flight often begins with the 15 th Century drawings by Leonardo da Vinci. He envisioned a machine with flapping wings powered by the human body. Da Vinci's ornithopter, as it was ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Chinese military's top drone-makers have built a new robotic bird ...

Isn’t it wonderful that there are researchers out there whose job is quite simply to make a robotic bird? That’s certainly the goal of this lab, whose flapping-wing drone, or ornithopter, has now been ...

Flapping its mechanical wings, a hummingbird-like "ornithopter" built by Brigham Young University students is at once an engineering feat and a sign of things to come in unmanned surveillance ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cov7-XWUa18&w=470] DARPA has awarded an extension to AeroVironment for their work on the Nano Air Vehicle project. The ...