After a first visit with highly promising results, the team Avineck works again at the Zoo d'Upie - le Jardin des Oiseaux in order to collect some more data on the biomechanics of parrts.
Field work in the Zoo d'Upie - Jardin des Oiseaux
Tag - team
1st meeting
Avineck is a highly interdisciplinary project and involves a number of collaborators.
The neck of birds, an arm for robots
The evolution of flight in birds led to a highly specialized appendicular apparatus. The transformation into wings limited the functional versatility of the forelimbs and, thus, the avian neck became the functional equivalent of the arm. In combination with the beak, the head-neck system of birds acts as a tool-bearing arm.