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Robots are cool. Birds are cool (at least, sometimes). Let's make a [[Robot Bird]]!
 
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* Since at least 2014, [[Surveillance Drone]]s have been [https://www.google.com/search?q=robotic+bird+drone&safe=off&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS714US714&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwittv2h5NvUAhWCbz4KHbrDBQ0QsxgIKA available in bird-shaped form factors], ranging from bird-shaped "airplanes" to actual flapping ornithopters.
** See, for example, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gc8kBmzOOI this falcon drone] from a firm called "Robirds".
** Or the [https://web.archive.org/web/20170627075446/http://www.mybionicbird.com/?lang=en Bionic Bird] from a company called XTIM.
* Even earlier, [https://www.ted.com/talks/a_robot_that_flies_like_a_bird this 2011 TED Talk] demonstrated a robot bird capable of flapping-wing flight.