A robot fitout with real pigeon feathers flies like a real pigeon.
A robot fitout with real pigeon feathers. A Robot resemblance with pigeon feathers may Point to the future of aerospace engineering a continuously morphing wings. David Lentink and his colleagues at stanford university in california first looked at joints and how they control the spread of their wings.They develop pigeonbot using a set of biohybrid morphing wings with 40 underactuated pigeon feathers , 20 on upper side and 20 on lower side . Lentink says: ...