Video: Festo's Smartbird robot featured at TED conference

(麻豆淫院Org.com) -- Robotics company, Festo, showed off the near four-month old creation, robot, at the 2011 in Edinburgh.

Markus Fischer, a Smartbird project leader, unveiled live demonstrations along with a brief talk about the robotic seagull.

With the help of an on board motor, Smartbird, modeled after the herring gull, can flap its wings and fly.

From a company whose inventions also include a pair of robotic penguins and an , Festo鈥檚 Smartbird really soars.

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