Inspired by birds, which use powerful leg thrusts to launch into the air, researchers led by Dr Won Dong Shin created ‘RAVEN’, a robot capable of achieving similar feats to its avian namesake.

A pigeon-inspired robot has solved the mystery of how birds fly without the vertical tail fins that human-designed aircraft rely on. Its makers say the prototype could eventually lead to passenger ...

So they’ve got this robot taking random pictures in hopes hoping of finding the elusive woodpecker, using a special algorithm to disregard all those other loser birds it’s not looking for.

A robot taught these birds a long-lost birdsong The song of the chingolo can be heard across South America. But young songbirds were no longer learning the tunes of their elders—until scientists ...

David Lentink, Professor of Biomimetics at the University of Groningen, has developed a robotic bird model with real pigeon feathers which flies like a bird.