Drones installed in taxidermied birds. They even flap, nightmarishly.

[beschizza]

Originally published at: Drones installed in taxidermied birds. They even flap, nightmarishly. | Boing Boing

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[Mindysan33]

[belovedvillain]

Just in time for a remake of Birdemic.

[chenille]

Well, at least it’s not Boston Dynamics trying this kind of thing.

[brokenwords]

No flights shown longer than 3 seconds. Are they flying or falling?

[GagHalfrunt]

Soon the talking heads on Russian television will be screaming about NATO cyborg drone birds.

[cepheus42]

So, it’s true. Birds really aren’t real.

[Yri]

Yeah, they’re not going to be actually flying any time soon, I’d say, or ever.

[MonkeyT12]

Walking is pretty much made up of falling and recovering. I suppose flying is much the same.

[bcsizemo]

@brokenwords

Are they flying or falling?

I think the word you are looking for is flailing.

[Tamsin_Bailey]

[Scientist]

The wings are way too stiff and look to be controlled by a single motor. Real birds^TM bend their wings in both directions to control flight and adjust each independently. They’re a long, long way from controled flight these corpse-drones

[Jesse13927]

That’s nothing.

EYE IN THE SKY CLIP PART 1

[Bunbain]

@beschizza

Taxidermy bird drones – currently being tested in a purpose-built cage at the university

Is this to make sure they don’t fly away?

[Tamsin_Bailey]

@Scientist

corpse-drones

[VeronicaConnor]

[smulder]

@Scientist

these corpse-drones

[Brainspore]

[Melizmatic]

Required, since no one else has posted it yet:

Also:

[PPK]

@brokenwords

Are they flying or falling?

Think I’ve seen this technique before…

“This isn’t flying, it’s falling with style!”