A flight from LaGuardia Airport to North Carolina was diverted to John F. Kennedy International Airport on Thursday evening, ...

From the labored flapping but majestic soaring of the largest Eagles to the mind-numbing speed and agility of exquisite neotropical Hummingbirds, avians have truly mastered the mechanics of flight.

The hind limbs keep heavier components close to the drone's main body, while springs and motors mimic a bird's powerful tendons and muscles. Evolution and biology solved the flight problem ages ...

Soaring and gliding birds harness the free energy of natural air currents to provide the forward (thrust ... Hummingbirds achieve this feat with rapid wingbeats in a figure-of-8 pattern. A bird’s ...

RAVEN uses spring-loaded legs for energy-efficient flight. Inspired by crows, it can hop, walk, and launch into the air. Built by EPFL researchers with a fixed-wing design for flying.

A team of roboticists at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, working with a colleague from the University of California, has designed, built and demonstrated a bird-like robot that can launch ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a bird-like robot capable of walking, hopping, and leaping into flight. Named RAVEN (Robotic Avian-inspired Vehicle for multiple Environments), the design features ...

The jump-to-flight strategy (without the propeller) was also more energy-efficient than the other three methods. The 50th anniversary of a key paper on how bird flight evolved Shin and colleagues ...

The pied kingfisher is a medium-sized, black-and-white kingfisher with a distinctive crest and a long, sharp bill ...

Scientists have built a bird-inspired robot with legs that can walk on the ground, hop over obstacles and jump into flight, an advance that may lead to the development of drones for complex terrains.