Researchers are using ultra high-speed cameras to study hummingbird flight, so they can build better flying robots.

Researchers build miniature flying robots, modeled on Drosophila Piezoelectric muscles flap tiny, gossamer wings.

Engineers building airborne robots at Stanford have been taking how-to-do-it lessons from hummingbirds and parrots. Using the highest of high-speed movie cameras, they are able to study the birds ...

Instead, making a flying spider involves equipping it with more active equipment. The problem is that just packing a multi-legged robot with enough servo motors and batteries to crawl around on ...

Flying robots made from cellophane? Researchers have discovered that cellulose is a smart material that can flap when exposed to an electric field.

Want to own a flying robot Dragonfly? Starting at $99, this tiny UAV is capable of hovering quietly in midair and taking high-definition pictures.

The way bats rapidly flap their wings in flight could inspire new designs of flying robots, according to a new study.

If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the "moment of inertia"—the resistance to angular motion—drops dramatically. Our nano-quadrotor ...

Flying robots that play the James Bond theme song? Micro-robots powered by bacteria? A car that drives itself? They may sound like works of science-fiction, but Vijay Kumar of Penn's General ...