A flock of birds soars quietly over a city skyline. They seem ordinary—perhaps magpies or gulls—but a closer look reveals something uncanny. Their wings flap with precision, their formation is too ...

China is developing bird-like surveillance drones designed to mimic real birds in flight, allowing unmanned systems to conduct reconnaissance missions while remaining difficult to detect in urban and ...

SOCORRO, N.M. (Gray News/TMX) - Researchers at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology are developing wildlife surveillance drones using taxidermy birds. The “bio-drones” are safer and less ...

The Airbus ‘Bird of Prey’ interceptor drone successfully completed its first demonstration flight at a military training area in northern Germany. In a realistic mission scenario, it autonomously ...

A new type of drone, inspired by the aerial precision of birds of prey, could one day navigate through dense city skyscrapers to deliver our packages or inspect hard-to-reach offshore wind farms, ...

Above Missouri's wetlands, a drone quietly hums above flocks of migratory water birds, its camera capturing the ripples of movement below. With this technology, University of Missouri researchers are ...

Next time you look up at the sky at a flock of birds, pay close attention. They might not be what you think they are. Scientists at New Mexico Tech are using birds preserved by taxidermy and turning ...

“We’re combining experimental flight data with machine learning to help drones predict and control their motion in real time to imitate a bird’s typical flight path. Traditional simulations such as ...