A robot that flies like a bird
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Uploaded on Jul 22, 2011
http://www.ted.com 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. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.
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Top Comments
Zachary Bautista 1 month ago
now to weaponize it
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GutterDemon123 1 month ago
new obama drone
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MisterPotacio 1 hour ago
cuidado, que tambien hace del baño
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Jesse Mora 18 hours ago
I want one!! absolutely ingenious technology I think the next bird ought to be an American EAGLE that would be so Awesome !!
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MrPerfectlogic 4 days ago
Engineers are the best!
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comradebubbles 5 days ago
Mount it with a surveillance camera and you could sell a million of them to the government.
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philbx1 1 week ago
Excellent engineering Festo!
I wonder if Festo will install a compressed air tank in future
to make it faster!
The SmartBird 'Fahrtenzoomen' model perhaps :-)
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bluemoonGulper 1 week ago
Standing Ovation. Awsome!!
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epicfail8798 1 week ago
i want one!
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Keops Robi 1 week ago
wow nice
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proudestmikey 1 week ago
It can fly, but can it poop?
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