A robot that flies like a bird – YouTube.

Plenty of robots can fly — but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings.

A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.
This is the same concept of Shakuna Vimana, the first kind of aircraft that is described in Vaimanika Shastra, Latest Technology has proved this to be right.

Germany – Still has the knowledge received from Samskrita, known to all, but the sources are hidden from public.

Learning from nature is what was done by the Sages earlier. they were not just the ones who sat and meditated for ages, they were the actual scientists who learnt all minor and major information from the Nature.

“First accept what is told, then discuss on it, later conclude the correctness.”

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