Robotic Bird

karl

German industry robot manufuacturer Festo recently presented what I think looks like the first "more or less naturally looking and flying" robotic bird - fun to watch:

Original Video from Festo: http://www.festo.com/net/de_corp/SupportPortal/Downloads/148243

DNews report: http://videos.revision3.com/revision3/web/dnews/0117/dnews--0117--dnews-117-robotic-bird-takes-flight--hd720p30.h264.mp4

I wonder if such a robot could be used to shoot some impressive close-ups of living birds - but then again, Winged Migration contained such already without requiring a robot :-)

Meierhans

Amazing and frighting at the same time. Another two years and there will be drones watching you from the sky that look exactly like a real bird...

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Yep, elites are working hard :-)

karl

Robots are not the ones killing people, it's the people commanding them.

And at least amongst the US-Government it seems to have become fashionable to kill people by drone - as recent reports suggest.

karl

Festo did it again - now they presented the first artificial Dragonfly that actually flies by the same methods that living Dragonflies use, pretty interesting to watch:

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