Engineers did such a good job designing a robotic bird drone for the U.S. Army the drone, dubbed Robo Raven, was attacked by real birds during test flights. Developed at the Maryland Robotics Center, ...

Even though "Robo Raven" sounds like something that could give Godzilla a run for his money in a cheesy ’70s movie, the creature is very real and represents a new step in the evolution of avian robots ...

Gerdes prepares to turn Robo Raven loose during tests earlier this month. Army researchers are working on developing a small unmanned aerial system that flies like a bird—a well-trained bird, in fact.

Engineers have already managed to build robots that glide, run, and buzz. Now two professors from the University of Maryland Robotics Center have created a robot that is able to fly by flapping its ...

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and from Texas A&M University have developed a new kind of bird-watching system that automatically identifies birds in flight and records their ...

Land-bound robots? Been there, done that. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are taking things up a notch with a bird-style bot capable of autonomous flight. By replicating ...

Birds are nice enough, unless you work at places like airports, farms, and landfills, in which case they're the sworn enemy. Today, there are a variety of tools and technologies for spooking unwanted ...