Flapping-wing robots that mimic the flight mechanics of birds and insects are closing the control gap with conventional ...

Russia is no longer content with drones that buzz like insects or glide like aircraft. Its latest experiment reaches inside the brains of living birds, wiring pigeons with neural implants so human ...

A bird banking in a crosswind doesn't rely on spinning blades. Its wings flex, twist and respond instantly to its environment ...

Researchers have built a drone that can walk, hop, and jump into flight with the aid of birdlike legs, greatly expanding the range of potential environments accessible to unmanned aerial vehicles.

Next time you look up at the sky at a flock of birds, pay close attention. They might not be what you think they are. Scientists at New Mexico Tech are using birds preserved by taxidermy and turning ...

Mosquito “birth control” delivery efforts mark a major technological advance for conserving critically endangered Hawaiian honeycreepers. 'Ākohekohe (Palmeria dolei), or crested honeycreeper, is ...

“As the crow flies” is a common idiom referring to the shortest distance between two points, but the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS), led by Dario Floreano, in EPFL’s School of Engineering has ...