Flying Robots Deliver Tacos
http://tacocopter.com/ Get a taco from your phone That’s a new idea
Category Archives: Experimental
Festo built SmartBird
Plenty of robots can fly — but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the [...]
The SmartBird inspired by Herring Gull
Festo specializes in Pneumatic and Electrical automation technology. This means that their research is directed toward the mastery and optimization of efficient airflow. At this company they have ongoing research in the automation field with their Bionic Learning Network. Here they take engineers and scientists from their company along with people from other companies and [...]