The hummingbird drone is small enough to sit on a pencil and can fly at 11 miles per hour.
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The Cornell project is but one of several overseen by the Iscol Family Foundation (also known as the IF Hummingbird Foundation), which focuses on social justice, education, and economic inequality.
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In February, AeroVironment completed the prototype of a surveillance drone disguised as a hummingbird drone for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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He has people working to develop a drone the size of a hummingbird and others working on an electric generator powered by ocean waves.
Hummingbird feeders hang from the trees, which are naturally strung with orchids (Ecuador has more than 4, 000 species of the flower) and the air seems almost to vibrate with the staccato movements of the myriad hummingbirds.
Of the world's 340 species of hummingbird, more than 130 are found in this country, and Guango Lodge, 11km east of Papallacta, is one of its finest bird-watching sites.
Called ARGUS-IS (both named after the mythological eye guy and an acronym for Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance - Imaging System) this guy straps a 1.8 gigapixel camera to the bottom of an A-160T Hummingbird robot helicopter.
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Add a hummingbird feeder, and Harrison says the birds will return year after year.
Pay attention to the trees and water stations throughout the sanctuary for the chance to spot six different kinds of playful hummingbird, plus red-and-blue masked trogons and a host of other tropical birds.
An unwieldy, arthritic and entirely unlikely hummingbird, I have been hovering on the cusp - on the luscious cusp, that is, of leaving the old news system and joining the new.
Beija-Flor was crowned champion for the fifth time in six years with a parade dedicated to the Amazon state of Amapa, its legends and its native hummingbird.
Pamir Gelenbe, a venture capitalist with Hummingbird Ventures, pointed out that there is great opportunity throughout the Middle East region, yet success varies.
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Apart from an occasional stutter while scrolling in the browser, the Epic's performance felt in line with what we should expect of its Hummingbird core -- in other words, it was generally responsive and smooth (Linpack scores ranged between roughly 7.6 and 8.2 MFLOPS).
The Nexus S from Google and Samsung Electronics uses a snappy, 1-gigahertz chip called Hummingbird.
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