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Episode: Why bird-like drones can help with saving energy
Description: Humans may have been able to create technology to realize their age-old dream of flying long ago. But there is still a lot to learn from the avian masters of the skies.
At a university in the Netherlands, researchers are exploring ways for drones to mimic how birds "hover" in the wind to reduce the energy needed to stay aloft.
It might look unassuming, like a basic small model plane. But the drone hovering in the wind tunnel at Delft University in the Netherlands is mimicking energy-saving behavior that can be observed in birds when they soar using thermals which...