The twist -- your shadow is processed by a Kinect camera and begins to disintegrate into a flock of birds. Your silhouette is then pecked to pieces in a second vignette before you emerge as an ...

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Birds flock, fish school, and mammals herd. And Boids' laws does a pretty good job of explaining all of this behaviour. At least we have more individual control of our movements.

Once those birds begin to turn, the message spreads fast: about 20 to 40 meters per second, ScienceNOW reports, meaning a flock of 400 birds needs just about half a second to turn.

Robotic Herding of a Flock of Birds Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. IEEE Transactions on Robotics , 2018; 34 (4): 901 DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2018.2853610 Cite This Page : ...

A flock may consist of just a few birds up to thousands. In Africa, the red-billed quelea (a sparrow) may occur in flocks of a million birds. Flocking confers two advantages.

NASHVILLE — In the summer of 2020, a massive flock of purple martins set up camp in the trees surrounding the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, in the heart of downtown Nashville. The birds had left ...

Why do flocks of birds swoop and swirl together in the sky? – Artie W., age 9, Astoria, New York A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a […] (The Conversation) – Curious ...

Robotic herding of a flock of birds using drones A joint team from KAIST, Caltech, and Imperial College London, presents a drone with a new algorithm to shepherd birds safely away from airports ...