Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings.Via A London Salmagundi.
Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings.Via A London Salmagundi.
I don't know why, but I definitely teared up when that bird was flying over audience. Probably something subconscious about humans harnessing flight the way we see it every day - I really don't know why it moved me so much, but it really, really did. Hundreds of years of wishing to fly like birds and they just did it.
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ReplyDeleteYou should watch 17minute film on designing that bird "Decoding bird flight":
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0vaQWDpUZ4