{"id":17247,"date":"2024-11-26T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17247"},"modified":"2024-11-26T08:23:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T08:23:04","slug":"hummingbirds-flight-offers-clues-to-improve-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17247","title":{"rendered":"Hummingbirds\u2019 Flight Offers Clues to Improve Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hummingbirds zooming around the garden from flower to flower and sipping nectar probably don\u2019t appear at first glance to be models for instruments of war.<\/p>\n

But the tiny thrumming birds are unparalleled aerial acrobats, power in miniature, instantly zipping forward and backward, diving quickly down and soaring back up, pitching, rolling and yawing, and even flying upside down.<\/p>\n

Their sophisticated flying abilities have captured the attention of robot designers, especially those studying the use of drones in modern warfare.<\/p>\n

\u201cHummingbirds are the best flyers out there,\u201d said Bret Tobalske, professor of biology and director of the Flight Lab at the University of Montana. \u201cThey are extreme in their physiology and flight performance. They are incredibly maneuverable. They are capable of hovering indefinitely\u201d \u2014 an adaptation driven by a love of energy-rich nectar.<\/p>\n

As vehicles without crews have taken over the skies in conflicts, hummingbirds have become the subject of new research<\/a>. The Flight Lab, accustomed to looking at the ecology, evolution and biomechanics of bird flight, is part of a broad effort, funded largely by U.S. defense dollars, to build a better robotic hummingbird. Mimicking these highly adapted birds \u2014 a phenomenon known as bio-inspiredtechnology \u2014 is the holy grail for the makers of flying robots.<\/p>\n

\u201cA real hummingbird can fly circles around robotic humming birds,\u201d Dr. Tobalske said. \u201cThey can fly circles around real birds too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hummingbirds zooming around the garden from flower to flower and sipping nectar probably don\u2019t appear at first glance to be models for instruments of war.But the tiny thrumming birds are unparalleled aerial acrobats, power in miniature, instantly zipping forward and backward, diving quickly down and soaring back up, pitching, rolling and yawing, and even flying upside down.Their sophisticated flying abilities have captured the attention of robot designers, especially those studying the use of drones in modern warfare.\u201cHummingbirds are the best flyers out there,\u201d said Bret Tobalske, professor of biology and director of the Flight Lab at the University of Montana. \u201cThey are extreme in their physiology and flight performance. They are incredibly maneuverable. They are capable of hovering indefinitely\u201d \u2014 an adaptation driven by a love of energy-rich nectar.As vehicles without crews have taken over the skies in conflicts, hummingbirds have become the subject of new research. The Flight Lab, accustomed to looking at the ecology, evolution and biomechanics of bird flight, is part of a broad effort, funded largely by U.S. defense dollars, to build a better robotic hummingbird. Mimicking these highly adapted birds \u2014 a phenomenon known as bio-inspiredtechnology \u2014 is the holy grail for the makers of flying robots.\u201cA real hummingbird can fly circles around robotic humming birds,\u201d Dr. Tobalske said. \u201cThey can fly circles around real birds too.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17249,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17250,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions\/17250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}