Robot Flies Like a Real Bird [VIDEO]
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...