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A robot that flies like a bird
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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.
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TED.com
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TEDTalks, TEDGlobal 2011, TED, Talks, animals, biomechanics, biomimicry, design, robots, technology, 2011
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