Teaching a drone to fly without a vertical rudder
Most airplanes in the world have vertical tails or rudders to prevent Dutch roll instabilities, a combination of yawing and ...
On the wings of war: Drone designers take cues from hummingbirds
Hummingbirds zooming around the garden from flower to flower and sipping nectar probably don’t appear at first glance to be models for instruments of war.
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Pigeon-inspired robot masters flight with bird-like reflexes, unprecedented stability
Researchers developed bioinspired robots with reflexive wings and tails, enabling stable rudderless flight, inspiring ...
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Robotic model with real pigeon feathers can fly like a bird
Have you ever wondered why an airplane has a vertical tailfin? The plane needs it to stabilize its flight. Since flying ...
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What traits make birds more susceptible to extinction?
Biologists at the University of Utah have conducted a comprehensive analysis identifying traits associated with all 216 bird ...
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How Do Birds Fly? Answers to Common Questions About Birds
Learn fascinating facts about bird senses and bird behavior from a birding expert, and discover the truth about how and why ...
Biologists identify traits correlating with all bird extinctions since 1500
Looking to inform the conservation of critically endangered bird species, University of Utah biologists have completed an ...