Flight

Podcast: birds and the bees, experts in flight and navigation

QBI's Professor Mandyam 'Srini' Srinivasan talks to ABC's Richard Fidler about the birds and the bess, and how their expert flight abilities can teach us a thing or two about navigation, avoiding crashes and safe landings.

Left or right? Honeybees have a preference for flight direction

Published on: 3 November 2017

Humans are mostly right-handed, and primates, cats, dogs and even budgies show handedness, but now for the first time, researchers have shown that bees have a preference for sides too.

Birds avoid crashing into each other by always veering right, QBI research finds, which may aid technology to stop mid-air plane collisions.

Budgies provide crash course in flight safety

Published on: 29 September 2016

Birds avoid crashing into each other by always veering right, QBI research finds, which may aid technology to stop mid-air plane collisions.

Research into how birds plan their flights has applications for drones and aircraft navigation systems.

Bird-brained flight provides clues for robotics

Published on: 23 June 2016

Research into how birds plan their flights has applications for drones and aircraft navigation systems.

The 2015/16 Aleks Brumby Summer Research Scholarship recipient, UQ's Tas Jouir, will research aerial navigation systems at QBI.

Scholarship winner takes flight

Published on: 7 December 2015

The 2015/16 Aleks Brumby Summer Research Scholarship recipient, UQ's Tas Jouir, will research aerial navigation systems at QBI.

Research into how birds and bees use vision in flight is guiding the design of future autopilots and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Learning about the birds and the bees helps aid flight

Published on: 10 June 2015

Research into how birds and bees use vision in flight is guiding the design of future autopilots and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Bird brains may help drones fly and avoid crashing

Birds have a remarkable ability to fly through complex environments with incredible speed, rarely colliding.