Could pigeons be the model for a new generation of flying robots? That's what the researchers who built PigeonBot, a robotic pigeon with actual feathered wings, seem to be betting. Having birdlike ...

Charles Darwin once posited that birds might flap their wings to communicate, not just to fly. However, this has always been pretty tricky to test. Now, 150 years later, researchers have discovered ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a drone. Introducing the PigeonBot, a new UAV designed to soar like a real-life pigeon using bird-like feathered wings. Developed by a team of researchers at ...

Most of us see birds every day. Go look outside your nearest window and chances are you're not going to have to wait long before you spot a feathered friend cruising by. Despite that, scientists have ...

May 30 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in Wales said a pigeon was lucky to survive getting a wing impaled on bird-deterring spikes on the side of a building. The RSPCA said the pigeon was spotted with a wing ...

A robot that resembles a pigeon and can make tight turns like real birds may point to the future of aerospace engineering – a continuously morphing wing. Understanding exactly how birds fly has always ...

A small contingent of chunky, dove-like birds cautiously patter around a clearing in a park in suburban Sydney. Suddenly, a feral cat pounces out from some nearby brush, narrowly missing a flock ...

Could pigeons be the model for a new generation of flying robots? That’s what the researchers who built PigeonBot, a robotic pigeon with actual feathered wings, seem to be betting. Having birdlike ...