Flying robots have some big advantages over their ground-going counterparts, but they're definitely not very energy-efficient ...

Mankind over the centuries has taken inspiration from nature to develop new technologies but these new Chinese drones mimic ...

Blériot first ventured into aeronautical design between 1900 and 1902 when he built a series of model "ornithopters"—aircraft propelled by flapping wings—that were powered by carbon-dioxide ...

Fixed-wing aircraft are limited by a fundamental dichotomy between maneuverability and stability; one always comes at the cost of the other. “But we found that in flapping flight, stability and ...