France's military is developing "BIOFLY" drones that mimic bird flight with flapping wings to achieve stealth and camouflage for military applications. Based on a 50-gram drone from Bionic Bird, the ...

Festo, a leading manufacturer of pneumatic equipment based in Germany, has announced the BionicSwift, a bird robot capable of autonomous flight. It looks like it's flying like a real bird, and it ...

Four flapping-wing drones developed by a research team at the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), which feature eagle, pigeon, butterfly and beetle imitations, have recently gained ...

(Nanowerk News) Engineers have long sought to unlock the secrets behind insects' uncanny flight abilities and agility in hopes of creating a new class of tiny yet capable flying robots. These flapping ...

BEIJING, Feb. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Hanvon, a Chinese leading manufacturer of intelligent pattern recognition technologies and products, will showcase its Smart Bionic Flapping Wings Mini RC Flying ...

Four years ago we told you about the MetaFly, a remote-control flapping-wing flying model insect made by French startup Bionic Bird (which did previously release a model bionic bird). Well, the ...

A bionic aircraft, developed by researchers at China's Northwestern Polytechnical University, broke the Guinness World Record for flight time of a flapping-wing drone on a single battery charge last ...

A Chinese university has developed a bionic flapping flight vehicle with a 123-minute continuous flight duration. This was reported by The Xinhua News Agency. The bionic flight vehicle, developed by ...

Those windup toy birds have received a modern makeover, and it is called the Bionic Bird. This device looks like a bird and flies like a bird — flapping wings included — and is controlled using a ...

Flapping robot birds complete with plumes of fake feathers have been designed to show how lightweight materials are capable of powering semi-autonomous flight technology. The winged drones, based on ...