Since the dawn of man, we have admired birds and wished we could fly like them. But flying by flapping wings is impossible, isn’t it?
On Sundays, we try to expand minds here at Fearless Competitor. A key idea I learned in my reunion visit to my alma mater, the University of Notre Dame (from where I received a degree in Marketing), was lifetime learning. So I learn as you learn in these TED talks.
By the way, Notre Dame football kicks off on August 31. 2013! I can’t wait.
http://www.ted.com Plenty of robots can fly — but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011, one of the famed Ted Talks.
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