The wings are driven as flapping wings by piezoelectric actuators. The problem with such systems is the ground effect that occurs during landings, air turbulence caused by the flapping wings ...

At the top of its body are four insect-inspired flapping wings that are moved by electrically activated artificial muscles. In its current form, the robot is hardwired to an external power source ...

It has a springy leg that lets it hop off the ground at about 20cm, or four times its height, as well as four flapping wing modules that give it lift and control its orientation. Insect-like ...

The hopping robot, which is smaller than a human thumb and weighs less than a paperclip, has a springy leg that propels it off the ground, and four flapping-wing modules that give it lift and ...

The ego or machinations of a few errant governors have resulted in the diminution of this constitutional office Governors are as old as the Mauryan era, but their need in independent India, and ...

This is because the scientists have given the robot flapping wings. They are driven by soft, artificial muscles with little energy and provide additional lift during the upward movement to ...

If the Milwaukee Art Museum's iconic "wings" ever look to be briefly leaning a bit, your eyes may not be playing tricks on you. And, this could be why, according to an MAM spokesperson who asked ...

Two American Airlines jets clipped wings on a taxiway, officials said. Representative Grace Meng said that, in 10 years of flying to and from Washington, “This has never happened to me.” ...

WASHINGTON - A plane hit another plane's wing while on the runway at Reagan National Airport Thursday afternoon, according to American Airlines. What we know: Two American Airlines planes ...