All talks

A robot that flies like a bird

TED 2011Jul 20116 min8834863 views

Speaker

About this talk

Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.