Stanford University engineers have created a robot bird that can use its feet to perch and carry things. “It’s not easy to mimic how birds fly and perch,” said Stanford engineer William Roderick. “After millions of years of evolution, they make take-off and landing look so easy, even among all of the complexity and variability ...

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