Festo AirPenguin

I’m surprised I haven’t seen this before. It’s the Festo AirPenguin and the YouTube video shows self-regulating biomechatronic systems (artificial penguins) flying in the air. They look like they are attached to the ceiling with fine wire, but in actual fact they use a clever bionic Fin Ray® structure and move gracefully through the air.

A group of three autonomously flying penguins hovers freely through a defined air space that is monitored by ultrasound transmission stations. The penguins are at liberty to move within this space; a microcontroller gives them free will in order to explore it. read more.

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