What This PigeonBot Tells Us About the Future of Flight

• Scientists at Stanford’s Bio-Inspired Research & Design (BIRD) lab figured out how pigeons are able to morph the shape of their wings during flight.
• From those findings came “PigeonBot,” a drone with feathers from real pigeon cadavers to create what is now considered the most advanced bird-like robot ever made.
• New research on the PigeonBot was published last week in Science Robotics.