News tagged with wing
Researchers build flying robotic 'tree helicopter' (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many trees disperse their seeds by releasing "helicopters," those single-winged seeds that are also called "samaras." As these seeds fall to the ground, their wing causes them to swirl and ...
Jan 25, 2011 |
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Cyclogyro Flying Robot Improves its Angles of Attack
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the past few decades, researchers have been investigating a variety of flying machines. Most studies have focused on improving the flying performance of standard flying mechanisms, rather ...
Jan 22, 2009 |
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BaTboT is up for imitating smart bat maneuvers
(Phys.org) -- Robotics researchers in Spain and the U.S. are studying bats for their design work on drones. Bat wings are highly articulated, with skeletons similar to those of human arms and hands. The researchers ...
Jun 03, 2012 |
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Four-winged dinosaur's feathers were black with iridescent sheen
A team of American and Chinese researchers has revealed the color and detailed feather pattern of Microraptor, a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur that lived about 130 million years ago. The non-avian dinosaur's ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Robotic bug gets wings, sheds light on evolution of flight (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A six-legged, 25 gram robot has been fitted with flapping wings in order to gain an insight into the evolution of early birds and insects.
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Engineers look to the birds for the future of UAVs (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at UC San Diego are mimicking the movement of bird wings to help improve the maneuverability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
May 30, 2011 |
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Evolution in reverse: insects recover lost 'wings'
The extravagant headgear of small bugs called treehoppers are in fact wing-like appendages that grew back 200 million years after evolution had supposedly cast them aside, according to a study published Thursday ...
May 05, 2011 |
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Robot hummingbird passes flight tests (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A prototype robot spy "ornithopter," the Nano-Hummingbird, has successfully completed flight trials in California. Developed by the company AeroVironment Inc., the miniature spybot looks like ...
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Human-powered ornithopter becomes first ever to achieve sustained flight (w/ Video)
Aviation history was made when the University of Toronto's human-powered aircraft with flapping wings became the first of its kind to fly continuously.
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Study: Bird wings morph quickly to adapt to human-created environmental changes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Can species quickly evolve when humans rapidly change their habitats? The answer, in some cases, is yes, according to a new study of North American songbirds.
Mar 10, 2010 |
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Eagle Owls Send Sweeter Valentines When Moon Is Full
(PhysOrg.com) -- Placing a tracking device on breeding owls with a wing span large enough to cover eight humans lined up side-by-side, is not a walk in the park. But, funded by a grant from the Spanish Ministry ...
Jan 21, 2010 |
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Dyson Unveils His Bladeless Fan (w/ Videos)
(PhysOrg.com) -- James Dyson, inventor of the bag-less vacuum cleaners has taken his invention one step further with the unveiling of the bladeless fan. Using 'Air Multiplier' technology the bladeless fan ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Oct 14, 2009 |
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To flap, or not to flap? Flapping wings can be more efficient than fixed wings, study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- According to a new Cornell study, an optimized flapping wing could actually require 27 percent less power than its optimal steady-flight counterpart at small scales.
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Robo-bats with metal muscles may be next generation of remote control flyers
Tiny flying machines can be used for everything from indoor surveillance to exploring collapsed buildings, but simply making smaller versions of planes and helicopters doesn't work very well. Instead, researchers ...
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Bumblebee flight 'triumph of power over finesse'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Brute force rather than aerodynamic efficiency is the key to bumblebee flight, Oxford University scientists have discovered.
May 07, 2009 |
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