Engineers building airborne robots at Stanford have been taking how-to-do-it lessons from hummingbirds and parrots. Using the highest of high-speed movie cameras, they are able to study the birds' ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a drone. Introducing the PigeonBot, a new UAV designed to soar like a real-life pigeon using ...

Try as they might, even the most advanced roboticists on Earth struggle to recreate the effortless elegance and efficiency with which birds fly through the air. The "PigeonBot" from Stanford ...

If flying is for the birds, then where better to look for aerodynamic inspiration than to birds themselves? A group of researchers at Stanford University this week unveiled findings from a study that ...

STANFORD—Nearly everything in David Lentink’s lab at Stanford University is white — the walls, the bird flying between two perches, the lab coat worn by her trainer. Marc Deetjen, the trainer, summons ...

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Stanford mechanical engineering professor David Lentink and his students capture slow-motion video from the fastest wings in the bird world, with an eye toward building flying robots that take design ...

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Engineers seeking better ways to stabilize drone cameras for better video images say they've taken inspiration from nature — specifically from geese and swans, who can hold their heads completely ...