A robot that flies like a bird

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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[Zachary Bautista]

now to weaponize it



[GutterDemon123]

new obama drone

[MisterPotacio]

cuidado, que tambien hace del baño

[Jesse Mora]

I want one!! absolutely ingenious technology I think the next bird ought to be an American EAGLE that would be so Awesome !!

[MrPerfectlogic]

Engineers are the best!

[comradebubbles]

Mount it with a surveillance camera and you could sell a million of them to the government.

[philbx1]

Excellent engineering Festo!

I wonder if Festo will install a compressed air tank in future

to make it faster!

The SmartBird 'Fahrtenzoomen' model perhaps :-)

[bluemoonGulper]

Standing Ovation. Awsome!!

[epicfail8798]

i want one!

[Keops Robi]

wow nice

[proudestmikey]

It can fly, but can it poop?