Purdue University researchers are building Hummingbird Robot that can flies on its own while tethered to an energy source, but soon be powered on batteries.

Deng’s group and her collaborators studied hummingbirds themselves for multiple summers in Montana. They documented key hummingbird maneuvers, such as making a rapid 180-degree turn, and translated ...

The robot uses software based on how hummingbirds really fly alongside a very light design and flexible flapping wings.

The robots could fly silently just as a real hummingbird does, making them more ideal for covert operations. And they stay steady through turbulence, which the researchers demonstrated by testing ...

The robot uses software based on how hummingbirds really fly alongside a very light design and flexible flapping wings.

A team of engineers in Purdue University’s Bio-Robotics Lab have developed an impressively agile flying robot, modeled after the hummingbird. Here's how it works, and why its creators think that ...

Researchers have created a tiny robotic hummingbird that flies in the same way as the real thing thanks to artificial intelligence. Engineers at Purdue University in Indiana developed simulations ...

Researchers have created a tiny robotic hummingbird that flies in the same way as the real thing thanks to artificial intelligence. Engineers at Purdue University in Indiana developed simulations of ...

They documented key hummingbird manoeuvres, such as making a rapid 180-degree turn, and translated them to computer algorithms that the robot could learn from when hooked up to a simulation.

Birds have been inspiring drones for years, but the hummingbird is particularly agile – its ability to hover and make sharp turns could teach drones a thing or two. Now researchers at Purdue ...

Why just build robots in our own image, when there are millions of other animals to translate into machinery? The latest robot out of Chiba University in Japan can bob and weave like a hummingbird, ...