Tiny flying robots have always faced a brutal trade-off between agility and battery life, burning through power just to stay ...

Grasshopper’s gangly, awkward flight could solve the biggest power problems in robotics. Standard micro-bots are modeled ...

Princeton engineers investigated the secret to grasshoppers' efficient gliding, inspiring a new approach for robotic flight.

An 18-year-old from Olympia, Washington, has just taken a significant step toward transforming the way we think about aviation. Kevin Shen’s new take on oblique-wing design not only achieves a higher ...

Flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs) are characterized by their compact size, lightweight design, and high maneuverability, making them highly practical for various applications. However, the ...

San Diego Museum of Art’s planned redesign of its west wing was honored Wednesday with a prestigious award as part of San Diego Design Week. The San Diego-based Design Forward Alliance honored the ...

The thrill of tracking the migrations of two of nature’s most elegant creatures is enjoyed by people all over the world. Generations of monarch butterflies are flying more than 1,000 miles south for ...

While Airbus expects its next narrowbody jet will have a traditional tube-and-wing configuration, it has not abandoned the idea of an eventual blended-wing-body (BWB) design for a larger jet. That is ...

Luminary Cloud has launched Shift-Wing, an AI-powered model and dataset designed to accelerate the conceptual design of advanced aircraft wings, from subsonic all the way up to transonic speeds. The ...

Due to changes in military strategy and technological breakthroughs, fighter jets are always evolving, with constant improvements made to radar, propulsion, and design. A notable feature developed for ...

“Nature’s a great teacher in telling us how to optimize systems,” Akbarzadeh says. “And when you look at a dragonfly, you see wings that have evolved over millions of years into an incredibly ...

Follow live coverage of qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix today BARCELONA, Spain — One of Formula One’s buzzwords is back in the news ahead of this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix: flexi-wings. The ...