A perching bird-like robot is seen to resemble how a real bird behaves, like carrying an object and flying around. While it's surprising to see a rare sighting of an unmanned aerial vehicle that ...

A newly developed, bio-inspired aerial robot can land on a variety of branches and carry objects like a bird. “Birds take off and land on a wide range of complex surfaces,” while “current robots are ...

Engineers at Stanford University have built a robotic bird to understand how birds are able to fly and perch on branches. The robot has a pair of snatching talons that attach to a circular flat base; ...

This bird-like robot has a claw that it could use to perch on branches it has flown to. It could potentially be useful for collecting samples in hard-to-reach places or silently observing animals in ...

It may not have the sweetest-sounding name - but apparently this Tawny frogmouth still has plenty to smile about. The remarkable-looking bird was spotted perching on a branch in eastern Australia with ...