Biomimetic flapping-wing aerial robots in hover can accurately detect winnd direction using wing strain sensing. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

This innovative approach mimics the natural strain receptors found in birds and insects, offering new avenues for enhancing the performance of flapping-wing aerial robots in varied wind conditions.

Standard quadrotor drones stop working at a very small scale, so one solution could be to use the same flapping wing motions as animals to build improved versions of these flyers that can hover ...

Example results include the 20-gram fully autonomous flapping wing robot DelFly Explorer, a swarm of tiny drones exploring unknown environments, and a new theory on how flying robots and insects ...

Inflated with helium, the Air_ray’s propulsion system is a flapping wing drive. Each wing has alternating pressure and tension flanks that are attached to an internal set of ribs. The flanks are ...

Especially the monitoring of the flapping movement of the rotor allows enhancing the performance of the tiltrotor ... software to be developed can also be used for other camera installations (e.g.