This article was written for the September 5, 2023 edition of Tech News, WPI’s campus newspaper. If you’ve ever seen falconry videos online, you know how agile birds can be. Watching them fly at top speed through gaps between trees and through obstacles until they reach their goal is something truly remarkable. Currently, there is a lab on campus dedicated to pushing the limits of autonomous control by attempting to fly a drone with the same speed and agility as these naturally engineered creatures (proving that birds are real, at least for now).