Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:Flapping-wing robot achieves bird-style self-takeoff by adopting reconfigurable mechanisms. Credit: Science Advances (2025). The wing sweeping and folding amplitude can also be tuned for pitch and roll control during flapping," the study authors explain. More information: Ang Chen et al, Flapping-wing robot achieves bird-style self-takeoff by adopting reconfigurable mechanisms, Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adx0465 Journal information: Science Advances© 2025 Science X Network