Researchers from the University of Michigan and UC San Diego (UCSD) studied tail-assisted midair reorientation in robots and found that mammals have already optimized this movement efficiently.

The heavy, muscled tails of lizards are able to reorient the body in one plane of rotation, and have inspired many rigid-tailed robots," said Talia Moore, U-M assistant professor of robotics and ...

Harvard University has had the flying robot insect market covered for a long ... Right now it stays pointed in the right direction with a very tiny tail fin like on an airplane.