A robot with bird-like legs that can walk, hop, leap and jump for take-off into flight has been designed in Switzerland in an engineering breakthrough that could enable aircraft to operate in ...

Stanford University engineers have created a robot bird that can use its feet to ... As well as perching, the SNAGs also caught objects in flight and carried them with no modification. Already the ...

but is shifting his focus to the study of bird flight. In this research, he is using both live birds and robots — like in his work with bats — to focus on the energetic flow between birds in group ...