Its four wings make it steady in high winds that would defeat existing miniature spy drones. Known as Skeeter, the secretive project has cracked the challenge of using flapping wings to power a drone.

There’s nothing necessarily limiting this design to oceans either. Qing said a similar flapping wing approach could also potentially be applied to robots operating in the land and in the air.

On December 10, 2024, in Santiago, Chile, @baby.blue_.__ shared a video of a green tiny parrot flapping its wings on the ...

About 230 million years ago, almost 80 million years before the first bird appeared, their distantly related cousins, the ...

Its whirring motors burn about four times the amount of power as a plane-like drone with rigid wings. So-called ornithopters, which have flapping wings, offer the best of both worlds. The one seen ...

The pterosaurs or flying reptiles. SNSB scientists have now identified a new species that shows that the origin of the most ...