Tagged: smartbird

Festo Unveils Flying Robot Bird

November 15, 2011 at 11:43 pm

Man, a curious and daring creature, has always dreamed of flight. Before the invention of the hot air balloon and the airplane, he looked towards nature for his inspiration, and what he saw was one of her most brilliant and graceful creations—the bird. Now, in a time when artificial flight is not only feasible but now […]

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Festo’s SmartBird

October 21, 2011 at 2:43 am

Earlier in the semester, I wrote my first blog post on “A Robot that Flies like a Bird.” The post was inspired by a video I saw last summer. Within the video, the head of the team Markus Fischer introduced the world to the first ever robot that flies like a bird; or so we […]

By Charlie Schumacher | Posted in student post | Also tagged , | Comments (1)

The Unmanned Ornithopter

October 13, 2011 at 12:01 pm

Leonardo da Vinci was one of the first people to truely dive into the depths of trying to create and design the ornithopter, a machine shaped like an aircraft that is held aloft and propelled by wing movements. He focused much of time and effort trying to sketch a design where the aircraft would be […]

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