04 December 2024 Bird-inspired leg enables robots to jump into flight A bird’s ability to transition swiftly from walking to flying has been emulated in the design of a simple robotic leg.

Birds can perch on a wide variety of surfaces, thick or thin, rough or slick. But can they find stable footing if a branch is covered in Teflon? In the interest of making better robots ...

Other robots developed at AVL are not based on birds or insects. "Evan Ulrich, a graduate student working at AVL, has created a machine modeled after a maple seed.

What Birds Can Teach Us about Flying Robots Modeling the physics of bird jumping is helping engineers make more mobile machines ...

German automation company Festo is at it again. Its latest robots -- an autonomous bionic arm and a flying robot bird -- are here, and they're awesome.