Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air

Image caption: EPFL’s RAVEN drone uses its legs to get around in a very birdlike way. Image credit: Won Dong Shin. Article by Evan Ackerman. IEEE Spectrum – December 4, 2024. Research article: Nature.

On the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is home to many roboticists. It’s also home to many birds, which spend the majority of their time doing bird things. With a few exceptions, those bird things aren’t actually flying: Flying is a lot of work, and many birds have figured out that they can instead just walk around […]

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