Credit: Willem Hoebink & Xander van der Sar

 

Welcome at Stanford's Bio-Inspired Flight Lab!

How do birds morph their body to maximize flight control and performance? | Credit: Jean Francois Cornuet

Why can animals fly effortless through environments that are visually and aerodynamically cluttered? | Credit: Henk Jan Jansen

What enables birds to turn on a dime? | Credit: David Lentink & Jan Wouter Kruyt

How does massive sensory integration enable animals to be super maneuverable? | Credit Joris Schaap & Emile van Wijk





Which aerodynamic mechanisms enable even the simplest organisms to fly stably in turbulence? | Credit: David Lentink



Lab Messages

03/19/2013

Human Frontiers Science Program

Together with the University of British Columbia and Queensland we received a Human Frontiers Science Program Grant to unravel visual flight control in birds. We are grateful that our joint proposal was ranked top ten of 700 letters of intent an...


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02/18/2013

3yr Postdoc position: Visual Flight Control

The ideal candidate has a background in visual flight control in insects or birds and can start August 1st 2013. I am looking for either a biologist with good engineering skills or an engineer with a PhD in biology keen on working with birds. For mo...


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01/03/2013

Lentink Lab presents at SICB 2013

Graduate student Jan Wouter Kruyt will present his recent work on comparative hummingbird aerodynamics. David Lentink will give a presentation on a new method to measure aerodynamic forces in animal flight. His second presentation is focused o...


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TEDx Amsterdam

David Lentink | Bio-inspired Flight

Nature is a great source of inspiration; ever since we first saw animals fly we dreamed of flight. Our dream came true with the invention of the airplane by Lilienthal & the Wright Brothers, who were inspired by birds a century ago. 100 years is, however, extremely recent
on an evolutionary time scale — we can still learn from birds. Currently there is a new wave of bio-inspired innovation that is revolutionizing the design of micro flying robots. Professor Lentink has worked for several years with collaborators and students to solve key biological questions that enable the design of innovative flying robots. In his TEDx talk Lentink explains the ideas that made it all possible.