Birds can be a pest to farmers and a danger to passenger safety if they gather near airport runways. One company has come up with a system that scares them away using LASER-shooting robots. Pew-pew!

Scientists have built a flying robot fitted with 40 genuine pigeon feathers in a bid to make a flying machine which mimics the way birds navigate the skies. The so-called PigeonBot is able to ...

Researchers have developed a bird-like robot that can walk, jump, and hop to fly. The robot or fixed-wing drone can move quickly from the ground into the air with its “avian-inspired” legs, according ...

Manoeuvering its wings as it flies through the air, it looks like any normal bird coming in for a landing. But, rather than the snappy handiwork of Mother Nature, this winged one is the first robot ...

Aerospace engineers have demonstrated the soft, perched landing of an autonomous ornithopter micro aerial vehicle (MAV). ‘The driving philosophy behind the work is that the manoeuvrability and control ...

A Chinese team of scientists has redesigned the Robo Falcon robot falcon, which was developed in 2021, so that it can now take off like a real bird and also fly more slowly. To achieve this, the ...

A robot built to disarm bombs was put to an unusual use on Friday, rescuing a pet bird from a Sydney apartment block. Tweety the cockatiel was stranded for two days after the building partially ...