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Engineering360: "A flapping-wing drone inspired by birds"

03/09/2022 12:00 AM

Read Engineering360 article: A flapping-wing drone inspired by birds.
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PAPADOC
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Re: A flapping-wing drone inspired by birds

03/22/2022 7:04 AM

A video would be very useful.
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kkn
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Re: A flapping-wing drone inspired by birds

03/22/2022 8:34 AM

Here is a video of such a bird - 10 years ago, by Festo :-)

Festo - SmartBird - YouTube
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03/22/2022 8:45 AM

That's pretty neat. I wonder why the research has stalled? Maybe all the prototypes got shot out of the sky by hunters.
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Steve Strobel
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Re: A flapping-wing drone inspired by birds

10/04/2023 2:43 PM

A video of the Skyonme Spybird pictured in the article can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rkdf-5Enc

Background on the Festo SmartBird mentioned in another comment can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA7PNQiHT1Q
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