A bird that doesn’t crap on your head…perfect! What may look like an air filled balloon caricature of a seagull is actually a robot dubbed SmartBird. Designed by Festo, the flying robot has been developed as part of their 2011 Bionic Learning Network project and is designed to start, fly and land autonomously without human
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Flying Robot Plays Jingle Bells while Hovering in mid Air
The infectious spirit of Christmas hits everyone this time of year, even quadrocopter’s. The Swiss flying robot named ‘Echo’ can be seen and heard playing my favorite Christmas ditty of all time, ‘Jingle Bells’. Echo is a test subject at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, where researchers study
