[HN Gopher] Engineers Look to Nature to Create Bird-Like Robot -...
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       Engineers Look to Nature to Create Bird-Like Robot - Unite.ai
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2021-12-03 15:32 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | dqpb wrote:
       | I expected this to be about winged flight, but was delighted that
       | it's about legged quadrotors!
        
       | tibbydudeza wrote:
       | "Birds are not real" conspiracy adherents will be vindicated.
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       | https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environm...
        
         | kk6mrp wrote:
         | That was my first thought exactly!
        
       | duckkg5 wrote:
       | Seems like biomimicry had lots of interesting solutions like
       | this. I can imagine some future drone designs looking more like a
       | falcon than a geometric 4-rotor quadcopter, especially when
       | trying to solve problems around efficiency and flying over longer
       | distances with better flight paths.
        
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