RoboSwift – the micro airplane with morphing, feathered wings

July 24, 2007 Micro air vehicles and Unmanned Aerial Systems have made Gizmag headlines in the past, (Reaper, Taranis, Snark and Camcopter to name just a few), and their success in the US military suggests we’ll see a lot more of them in the future. The flexibility of the scale, and the fact there’s no one in the cockpit to get injured, means that the field lends itself to unconventional vehicle designs. RoboSwift, designed by Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University in The Netherlands, is a remarkable model that has used cutting edge technology to recreate the adaptive movements of nature’s stealth aircraft – the swift.

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