Mankind is decades away from taking to the skies in an Iron Man-like suit, but now that researchers at the University of Maryland have cracked the secret to building robot birds that can dive and ...

Combing pigeon feathers with a robot allowed researchers to learn more about how birds fly, and hints at possible aircraft designs of the future.

“You can make manipulations in a robot wing that you could never do or want to do in a bird.” The flying machine needed birdlike maintenance at times.

Researchers are building a robot bird. That's great news until a robot cat comes along.

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 ...

Robo Raven is a robot bird that flaps around to fly, can dive and swoop like a real bird of prey.

A mechanical engineer from Stanford created a "bird-like" robot that uses legs inspired by those of a peregrine falcon to perfectly land on stuff.

Researchers have created an autonomous flying robot that is as smart as a bird when it comes to maneuvering around obstacles.

Try as they might, even the most advanced roboticists on Earth struggle to recreate the effortless elegance and efficiency with which birds fly through the air. The "PigeonBot" from Stanford ...

Researchers are using ultra high-speed cameras to study hummingbird flight, so they can build better flying robots.