Learning from nature: a new flapping drone can take off, hover and swoop like a bird 📦

12    28 Jul 2020 23:17 by u/tommijones

"We have developed four-winged bird-like robots, called ornithopters, that can take off and fly with the agility of swifts, hummingbirds and insects. We did this by reverse engineering the aerodynamics and biomechanics of these creatures." says Javaan Chahl, DST Group Joint Chair of Sensor Systems, University of South Australia.

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Watch the first video from the link, that drone actually looks like a bird. That's cool
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It's really quite neat.
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yea