Hummingbird robot, Bio-robotics Laboratory, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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Hummingbird Robots: naturally intriguing

Published on May 8, 2019

What can fly like a bird and hover like an insect? Your friendly neighborhood hummingbird. If drones had this capability, they would be able to fly steadily through windy conditions, and get into tight spaces other drones couldn't go. Assistant professor Xinyan Deng and her team have created a bio-inspired hummingbird robot: trained by artificial intelligence, weighing only 12 grams, and utilizing unsteady aerodynamics to hover, just like the real thing.

 

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Purdue Hummingbird overview

Published on May 8, 2019

Details are shown in the publications below:

Flappy hummingbird: An open source dynamic simulation of flapping wing robots and animals

Acting Is Seeing: Navigating Tight Space Using Flapping Wings

Learning extreme hummingbird maneuvers on flapping-wing robots

"Hummingbird robot using AI to go soon where drones can’t"

May 9, 2019

 

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"Purdue’s robotic hummingbird is nearly as nimble as the real thing"

by Luke Dormehl
May 18, 2019