Watch this robotic bird use its claw-like claw to land safely on its perch

A claw-like claw with sharp ends and a softer center helps this flying robot cling to thin perches like a bird.

This bird-like robot has a claw that it could use to perch on branches it landed on. This could potentially be useful for collecting samples in hard-to-reach places or quietly observing animals in their natural habitat.

Landing and perching on a branch is easy for most birds, but it is very difficult for robots that fly like birds because of their larger size and the complexity of landing on a thin object.

Now, Raphael Zufferey of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and his colleagues have developed a robotic bird – which has a wingspan of 1.5 meters…