A robot with bird-like legs that can walk, hop, leap and jump for take-off into flight has been designed in Switzerland in an engineering breakthrough that could enable aircraft to operate in ...

Inspired by birds, which use powerful leg thrusts to launch into the air, researchers led by Dr Won Dong Shin created ‘RAVEN’, a robot capable of achieving similar feats to its avian namesake.

Learn how to build your own desktop fully functional robot arm powered by Arduino hardware and assembled using 3D printed parts.

David Lentink, Professor of Biomimetics at the University of Groningen, has developed a robotic bird model with real pigeon feathers which flies like a bird.