Robird awards

enschede - The robot-Raptor, developed at the University of Twente, during a special festival in Slovenia named the best robot innovation of the past year.

The robotic peregrine Robird, which on several occasions was in the news, can be used to chase other birds, for example at airports or waste processors. Especially at airports birds are a big problem, which is sometimes fatal accidents occur in collisions between aircraft and birds. Additionally ensure birds worldwide billions in damage in the agricultural sector, waste management companies, ports and in the oil and gas industry. The Robird mimics truer instinctively flee the flight behavior of a falcon after other birds.