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The AeroVironment Nano Hummingbird or Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) is a tiny, remote controlled aircraft built to resemble and fly like a hummingbird, developed in the United States by AeroVironment, Inc. to specifications provided by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The Hummingbird is equipped with a small video camera for ...
Nano Hummingbird – Announced in 2011, a hummingbird look-alike drone equipped with a camera, it could fly at speeds of up to 11 miles (18 km) per hour. It could climb and descend vertically, fly sideways, forward and backward, as well as rotate clockwise and counter-clockwise by remote control for about eight minutes.
RQ-11A Raven A (no longer in production) [citation needed]; RQ-11B Raven B [citation needed]; CU-173 Raven B - version for the Canadian Armed Forces [9]; Solar Raven – In November 2012, the Air Force Research Laboratory integrated 20 cm 2 (3.1 in 2) flexible solar panels into the Raven platform's wing sections using a clear, protective plastic film and an adhesive to augment the existing ...
The radio-controlled robot bird is used to scare away birds that could damage the engines of airplanes. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] In 2012, RoBird (formerly Clear Flight Solutions), a spin-off of the University of Twente, started making artificial birds of prey (called RoBird®) for airports and agricultural and waste-management industries.
The AeroVironment FQM-151 Pointer is a small UAV used by the United States Army and Marine Corps for battlefield surveillance. It was designed by AeroVironment Incorporated, formerly led by Paul MacCready, noted for such pioneering aircraft as the human-powered Gossamer Condor and a robotic flying pterodactyl replica.
A ground mobility and perching mechanism inspired from bird claws was recently developed by Vishwa Robotics and MIT and sponsored by US Air Force Research Laboratory. [ 23 ] Various symposia bringing together biologists and aerial roboticists have been held with increasing frequency since 2000 [ 24 ] [ 25 ] and some books [ 26 ] [ 27 ] [ 28 ...
The aircraft, being the AeroVironment Nano Hummingbird, is named "Nano Hummingbird", not "The Nano Hummingbird"; the use of "the" in the infobox name slot is therefore inappropriate. - The Bushranger One ping only 08:21, 23 February 2011 (UTC) As noted above. The name of the aircraft and the article is "AeroVironment Nano Hummingbird".
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