Researchers at New Mexico Tech are taking taxidermy birds and adding technology to create a lifelike drone.
Next time you look up at the sky at a flock of birds, pay close attention. They might not be what you think they are.“We are trying to develop this technology to help wildlife and to help understand birds, not to hurt them,” said Mostafa Hassanalian, Ph.D., an associate professor of mechanical engineering at New Mexico Tech. He has done research on drones for more than 15 years and had this specific idea for more than a decade.
“We came with this idea, well all right if the bird is dead and taxidermied, we have all the structure, so if we do reverse engineering, we can re-engineer them, and make them as a drone,” he said. “We can develop some nature-friendly drones,” he said.“We observed that the current drones that are being used for wildlife monitoring, they have potential dangers to the wildlife,” he said.
“We want to apply those applications to the aviation industry in order to save more energy and consume less fuel,” Hassanalian said. To put this issue in perspective, the FAA has reported more than 2,000 possible bird strikes so far this year across the U.S.“We don’t know how the birds are going to react,” he said. “Once we get the approvals, we might be able to see.”
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