Festo - SMART Bird

Some developments in Robotics are too beautiful to miss.  Watch the two following videos to get a REAL feel for how close they guys are coming to replication of bird flight.  The robot bird project has been something that many in the Robotics Industry have been grasping for. The SmartBird project by the folks at FESTO seems to have brought us one step closer, to autonomous realistic bird flight.  As you will see in the videos below it's very realistic in it's mechanics.

As the technology grows and the source code grows more and more complex.  It leaves one wondering WHEN the Land and Perch on a Wire Code will be released.