FLying Robot Seagul

**Don Boose** · #1 09-20-2011, 09:07 AM

A robot that flies like a bird | Video on TED.com

But can it be made out of paper?

Don

**Texman** · #2 09-20-2011, 09:58 AM

Come on Don, as you've seen at IPMC, anything can be made out of paper! Sushi, plants, mechanical devices, etc!

**jobeaux** · #3 09-23-2011, 05:15 PM

WOW! I wish I had been there to see that in person.

**Nh3ave2009** · #4 09-23-2011, 07:20 PM

That is truly Awesome!!!

**Hudsonduster** · #5 09-23-2011, 08:45 PM

This was a big deal on the Flyers sites a couple months back as well.

Anybody old-and-dweeby-enough may remember the abysmal Jonathon Livingston Seagull movie, where the flying sequences were all done with a slope-soaring R/C mockup built and flown by glider master Mark Miller.

More to the point, this latest marvel is nicely rendered in CF with modern CAD/CAM & 3D work, but it's pretty well-established OldSchool: we've been doing ornithopters for a long time, and this present example is an admittedly-masterful use of articulated solid structure to further mimic organic wing movement--but the principle, and most of the homework, have been done.

--In paper: hmm. Well, either the above link demonstrates it's already happened, or--okay, maybe in really-stiff paper. With a good strength/weight ratio. And a decent helping of CAD.

But would it be FUN?

'Duster