I’m not saying you should go crowdfund a Bionic Bird X-Fly, as you’ll hear in my hands-on video below. I’m just saying that biomimetic ornithopters are surprisingly fun — and way less disruptive than ...

Lumina Tech and ID Tech Solutions, led by young innovator Isha Das, have introduced two advanced biomimetic aerial systems—the AI-enhanced Bionic Bird and Bionic Flying Fox—marking a major leap in ...

Members of China’s Jiaolong Commandos, a maritime special operations units, are seen using multiple types of bird-like drones in newly emerged videos. The scenes may look ripped straight from a ...

Artificial Flight: Modern drones have become pretty advanced, but they are very energy-inefficient. European researchers decided to take inspiration from birds to develop a new type of drone that ...

Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have unveiled a nee robotic drone named Raven (Robotic Avian-inspired Vehicle for multiple ENvironments), inspired by the agile ...

Drone aircraft are no longer curiosities—they're widely used in recreation, transportation, and even warfare. Most of these flying machines use rotary-wing quadcopter designs, which allow them to take ...

This is pretty cool! I appreciate how dramatic the audio is on the slow-motion video clip in the article. The Mars atmosphere is so thin (0.007 bar) that a conventional fixed wing aircraft would need ...