Dune director Denis Villeneuve is no stranger to designing spaceships and vehicles unfamiliar to the human eye, whether that be the other-worldly egg-shaped behemoths from Arrival, or the neon-tech ...

We’re becoming used to drones flying like miniature helicopters – but these ones, being researched here, will fly like one of the world’s fastest birds. UniSA aerospace engineer Javaan Chahl says he’s ...

"There are existing ornithopters, but, until now, they were too inefficient and slow to be agile. We have overcome these issues with our flapping wing prototype, achieving the same thrust generated by ...

Javaan Chahl does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

A drone prototype that mimics the aerobatic manoeuvres of one of the world's fastest birds, the swift, is being developed by an international team of engineers in the latest example of biologically ...

CMRIT students develop flapping air vehicle prototype that looks like a bird, can fly for 10 minutes at a time A group of students from CMR Institute of Technology (CMRIT) has developed an ornithopter ...