{"id":2012,"date":"2011-07-27T12:28:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T17:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:56:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:56:15","slug":"flying-robotic-seagull-attracts-flock-of-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2011\/07\/27\/flying-robotic-seagull-attracts-flock-of-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying robotic seagull attracts flock of birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/technology\/2011\/07\/robot-bird-drone-festo-ted.html\">Los Angeles Times<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 26, 2011<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7_gJSiwjmp8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>German engineering firm Festo has developed a robotic seagull that\u2019s so lifelike it appeared to fool real birds into thinking that it was part of the flock.<\/p>\n<p>SmartBird is an ultralight flapping-wing robot inspired by the herring gull, and it can start, fly and land autonomously, Festo said. It weighs less than a pound and has a 6 1\/2-foot wingspan, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.festo.com\/net\/SupportPortal\/Downloads\/46270\/Brosch_SmartBird_en_8s_RZ_300311_lo.pdf\">company fact sheet.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch in the video above as the SmartBird coasts above the crowd and attracts a nearby flock of birds. According to the YouTube post, the flight took place at TEDGlobal 2011, an annual five-day technology conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>TED, or Technology Entertainment and Design, the organization that held the event, posted another video of SmartBird as it flew indoors. Tech geeks and aerospace nerds alike gave it a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe audience watches in awe as the robotic SmartBird &#8212; powered simply by the motion of its wings &#8212; takes flight over their heads in the TEDGlobal theater,\u201d the post says.<\/p>\n<p>Now that it has gotten the attention of both human and avian crowds, who knows what\u2019s next for the company?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We try to mimic nature,&#8221; said Festo designer Markus Fischer in the YouTube video.<\/p>\n<p>This year, AeroVironment Inc. in Monrovia unveiled a pocket-size drone, dubbed the Nano Hummingbird, which mimicked the flight of a real life hummingbird. Outfitted with a tiny camera, the little drone was developed with funding from the Pentagon. Some analysts say the technology might find its way as a mini-spy plane on the battlefield or in urban areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Los Angeles Times July 26, 2011 German engineering firm Festo has developed a robotic seagull that\u2019s so lifelike it appeared to fool real birds into thinking that it was part of the flock. SmartBird is an ultralight flapping-wing robot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2011\/07\/27\/flying-robotic-seagull-attracts-flock-of-birds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robot-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5361,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/5361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}