Birds have been inspiring drones for years, but the hummingbird is particularly agile – its ability to hover and make sharp turns could teach drones a thing or two. Now researchers at Purdue ...

Pentagon researchers have taken robots for a science fiction spin, building a robotic hummingbird that's ideal for covert surveillance. A year and a half ago, we saw our first look at the hummingbird ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- What can fly like a bird and hover like an insect? Your friendly neighborhood hummingbirds. If drones had this combo, they would be able to maneuver better through collapsed ...

It’s difficult to spy on shy creatures in their natural habitats, whether it be in the deep sea, or in the trees. Now, however, thanks to animatronic drones and robots, people are able to safely ...

Researchers have created a tiny robotic hummingbird that flies in the same way as the real thing thanks to artificial intelligence. Engineers at Purdue University in Indiana developed simulations of ...

A Japanese researcher from the Chiba University in Japan, Professor Hiroshi Liu, has unveiled a hummingbird robot that cost over $2 million to develop. The robot is about the size of a real ...

The Pentagon’s wacky sci-fi department DARPA has been working on robotic hummingbird-based drones to serve as miniature spies. They’re not nearly as agile or adorable as real hummingbirds, but DARPA ...

Professor Liu at Chiba University has created a 2.6g robot that flies like a hummingbird. Why just build robots in our own image, when there are millions of other animals to translate into machinery?

This tiny, flying robot flaps its wings 30 times per second—just like a real hummingbird—and will one day save lives by searching for survivors in wreckage and spots not easily accessible by humans.

Engineers at Purdue have built a flying robot to mimic one of the most expert flyers in the natural world: the hummingbird. The Purdue engineers trained their robot through an algorithm based on ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — What can fly like a bird and hover like an insect? Your friendly neighborhood hummingbirds. If drones had this combo, they would be able to maneuver better through collapsed ...