Jarno Smeets controlled the flapping of mechanical wings with Wii remote, an android smartphone and electric motors. In the video, he starts by running on ground and flapping wings with a slow lift ...

The good ship Red Wings features a hull pock marked with leaks. The engine is smoking and sputtering. A fresh coat of paint wasn’t going to fix all that ails this team. And as much as the arrival of ...

For centuries, humans have attempted to replicate the winged flight of birds, and if a video posted to YouTube this week is to believed, one man has succeeded. Over the last eight months, Dutch ...

An MTech student of Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur has come up with an `ornithopter' (mechanical bird) made out of scrap that is not only capable of flapping its mechanical wings just like ...

Butterfly wings are a bit of a mystery and “conventionally considered aerodynamically inefficient". Researchers have analysed air flow movements behind butterfly and mechanical wings, and found that ...

That there's a great deal of work to be done was evident in Todd McLellan's first game as head coach of the Detroit Red Wings. Their 5-2 loss Friday to the Toronto Maple Leafs was marred by defensive ...

A mechanical neural network composed of beams, motors and sensors can learn to carry out several different tasks, just like its software equivalent, and could lead to aircraft wings that morph during ...