Man has been trying to find ways and means to conquer the universe. By putting challenges to the limits of his thinking, he has brought about a revolution in every field. A century ago the Wright ...

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What if urban air taxis could, like birds, vary the configuration of their wings in flight? The answer to such questions could soon become reality through morphing wing technology assisted by ...

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.

Aerial robotics has rapidly evolved to incorporate perching mechanisms that enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to transition from flight to a stationary state on diverse surfaces. Perching not ...