What if urban air taxis could, like birds, vary the configuration of their wings in flight? The answer to such questions ...

In modern research and development contexts, aerial robotics are expanding beyond their hobbyist origins. A forthcoming ...

MIT and NASA researchers have developed a morphing airplane wing that goes back to the future: The entire wing bends and twists, much as the Wright brothers' Flyer 1 did more than a century ago.

What if components in aircraft could morph in response to their external conditions, much like a bird changes the shape of its wings? And what if those components could function like an octopus arm, ...

Airbus UpNext, the airframer’s innovations arm, will early next year begin flight tests of a Cessna Citation VII business jet that it will eventually modify with a wing that can automatically change ...

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Leonardo says it has completed inflight demonstrations of a morphing wingtip and winglet developed as part of the European Union’s Clean Sky aerospace research and technology initiative. The Italian ...