A flying robot that imitates a bird has been created.
Plenty of robots can fly but none can fly like a real bird. Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull that flies by flapping its wings.
This invention of a flying robot imitates a bird. It takes off, lands and flies like a real bird.
The flying robot has a two-meter wingspan, and is made of a lightweight (450 gram) carbon-fiber skeleton body.
It uses hybrid drive technology to copy the flying characteristics of the Herring Gull and imitates the construction and the motion of the wings during flight.
Birds fly by moving an up-stroke and a down-stroke characteristic with their wings and they also twist to change angles for maneuverability and directional control.
Te Smart Bird mimics this capability by using a flexible articulated torsion drive that allows the robot to autonomously twist for maximum flight efficiency.
This technical adaptation is quite an accomplishment in aerodynamic engineering and for energy consumption.
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