# A robot that flies like a bird

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2011
- Speaker: Markus Fischer
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/markus_fischer_a_robot_that_flies_like_a_bird)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [A robot that flies like a bird](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/markus_fischer_a_robot_that_flies_like_a_bird/bd9fda163218), 6 min (TED's player)