“I turned quickly with just enough time to video them coming in for a ‘graceful’ landing.” If the first crane looks familiar, Favorite has a suggestion for what the bird’s moves look ...

Even if you've built one of the world's most advanced insect-inspired micro air vehicles (MAVs), it ultimately won't be that useful if it can't stick a good landing. That's why scientists at Harvard ...

What is left in the bird world that’s anything like ... The bow is done after mating and as a threat when landing in a crowd of cranes. I wonder if the Japanese got their custom of bowing ...

The lab looked to nature to inspire mechanical upgrades for skillful flight and graceful landing on a variety of terrains. They chose the crane fly, the relatively slow-moving, harmless insect ...

Each spring, hundreds of thousands of cranes converge in Nebraska. The phenomenon draws in artists, conservationists and ...

thanks to biomechanical improvements to its landing gear modeled on the crane fly, which has a similar wingspan and body size to the RoboBee platform. The details of this achievement appear in a ...

After more than 1,500 of the lanky birds died in Indiana, wildlife biologists in Nebraska were on high alert for the virus—but so far, the visiting birds seem happy and healthy ...

RoboBee comes in for a landing Microrobot gets crane fly-inspired legs for soft touchdowns Date: April 16, 2025 Source: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Summary ...