Fly like a bird

[Ranald]

This is an amazing video, and there are plenty of other interests on the same site, so have a good look around, but be careful as the time disappears very quickly !.

The recording was made in July 2011 in Edinburgh, which has apparently started bringing this sort of research/findings to the city because of its history of the enlightment

When it starts, click at the top right for full screen.

http://www.ted.com/talks/a_robot_tha...ke_a_bird.html

TED Talks Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, ...

Fingers crossed that the link works.

Ranald

[Lizzie]

Re: Fly like a bird

Fascinating! Where do you get all this interesting stuff, Ranald?. Did you catch what material was used for the body? Must be tremendously light. I think I'll order a suit! Oh, to fly like a bird!