A robot that flies like a bird

[Mani2020]

Another beautiful bit of work from Festo biomimicry is something we are going to see lots of in the future. This has really brightened my Friday up! It looks right it flies right and guess what its more efficient because of it.

SmartBird is an ultralight but powerful flight model with excellent aerodynamic qualities and extreme agility. With SmartBird, Festo has succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds. This bionic technology-bearer, which is inspired by the herring gull, can start, fly and land autonomously – with no additional drive mechanism. Its wings not only beat up and down, but also twist at specific angles.This is made possible by an active articulated torsional drive, whichin conjunction with a complex control system makes for unprece -dented efficiency in flight operation. Festo has thus succeeded forthe first time in realising an energy-efficient technical adaptation of the natural model.


The fantastic SmartBird from Festo made an appearance at the TED talk in Edinburgh. We love biomimicry at sUAS News!

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.

 

[Mani2020]

 

[Mani2020]

 

[Mani2020]

Same type of UAV was carrying out surveillance mission in Baluchistan since don't know when , people would have been assuming it just a bird flying over their head without the knowledge of real thing , we only came to know about it when that UAV crashed

 

[nomi007]

nice bird................................................................

 

[QADRI]

chaman american plane crash - YouTube

same thing.

 

[DANGER-ZONE]

saw this Bird UAV video about 8 months ago ... but never knew it was used in Pakistan as well.

 

[PWFI]

Same type of UAV was carrying out surveillance mission in Baluchistan since don't know when , people would have been assuming it just a bird flying over their head without the knowledge of real thing , we only came to know about it when that UAV crashed

It was German UAV or american? :o

 

[Mani2020]

It was German UAV or american? :o

it belonged to US

 

[QADRI]

i am waiting for Chinese brothers to be invited into Pakistan, to introduce Pak Bird soon.

 

[Chogy]

There are differences between the Festo bird and other bird-shaped UAV's. Note the Festo bird gains lift and propulsion from flapping like a real bird, but it can't carry any real payload. The UAV "bird" is SHAPED like a bird, but probably uses a propeller for thrust, and I'd guess the wings don't flap.