A shrinking sage grouse population faces danger from planes, prompting an unusual robot-assisted rescue effort.

Officials hope lifelike decoys will lure sage-grouse away from a dangerous airport zone ...

In 2021, a group of scientists from China engineered the RoboFalcon—a bird-inspired flapping-wing robot with a newly engineered mechanism made to drive bat-style morphing wings capable of flight.

Spring is here, and that can only mean one thing: the return of robot birds. In Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park, rangers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a robo-grouse — and it could help save a fragile ecosystem in national parks across America.

"One of the challenges with restoration is that even when you create great habitat, wildlife doesn't always show up right ...

Usually, you think of bird decoys as being a tool to lure birds to an untimely encounter with a hunter. However, [Interesting ...

In this computer-generated flight sequence, the ornithopter’s wings beat without any gears or motors—powered instead by thin piezoelectric actuators that flex the entire structure. A bird banking in a ...

Why settle for a regular robot when you can have a robot coyote? That's the innovative question the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is answering as it rolls out robot coyotes ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a robo-grouse — and it could help save a fragile ecosystem in national parks across America. The decoys include realistic touches, such as feathers provided by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Only three male sage-grouse were spotted last year in Grand Teton National Park. The greater sage-grouse is a prime example of the ...

Electricity-driven materials replace motors and gears to power bird-like drone wings that flap, twist and morph, opening the door to simpler, lighter flapping-wing aircraft. (Nanowerk News) A bird ...