http://www.ted.com Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading th
![A robot that flies like a bird | Markus Fischer](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/75f54c03a0b3b09ce4b056670f8c60b6c4a15b09/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FFg_JcKSHUtQ%2Fhqdefault.jpg)