Birds of prey are inspiring a new type of drone being developed as part of a research project by the University of Surrey. Dr Olaf Marxen, from the institutions mechanical engineering sciences, is ...

Engineers in the U.K. are taking cues from one of nature's most skilled aviators — the owl — to design smarter, more agile drones that could transform how we inspect sprawling wind farms and dense ...

A new type of drone, inspired by the aerial precision of birds of prey, could one day navigate through dense city skyscrapers to deliver our packages or inspect hard-to-reach offshore wind farms, ...

According to BBC News, engineers at the University of Surrey are taking inspiration from owls and raptors to design a new kind of drone that mimics the way birds of prey perch and glide. The project, ...