We all knew the day was coming when robots would take over. No use fighting it.
Why not embrace it instead and take this opportunity to relax and enjoy summer?
It's not a real bird, but it's looks real enough to make you look twice.
Markus Fischer and the Festo company presented SmartBird to an audience at a TED talk.
The machine flies by wing-flapping rather than by props or rotors.
It took composite technology and a lot of tight design to make it work, but its flight looks very seagull-like and almost natural...