took inspiration from the anatomy of birds to design a multifunctional robotic leg that enables RAVEN, the authors’ uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV), to walk, hop, jump and fly. Adding legs to such ...

Their Robotic Avian-inspired Vehicle for multiple ENvironments (RAVEN) trades traditional landing gear for a pair of bird-inspired articulated legs that allow the drone to walk around, hop over ...

“The RAVEN robot can walk, hop over obstacles, and do a jumping takeoff like real birds,” says Won Dong Shin, an engineer leading the project. The key challenge in attaching legs to drones was ...

RAVEN uses spring-loaded legs for energy-efficient flight. Inspired by crows, it can hop, walk, and launch into the air. Built by EPFL researchers with a fixed-wing design for flying.

Named RAVEN (Robotic Avian-inspired Vehicle for multiple Environments), the design features multifunctional legs inspired by birds. These legs enable the robot to seamlessly transition between ...

Scientists have built a bird-inspired robot with legs that can walk on the ground, hop over obstacles and jump into flight, an advance that may lead to the development of drones for complex terrains.

From foraging for valuable truffles to helping heal wounded warriors, these DC-area dogs have bona fide jobs­—and are ...

Scientists have built a bird-inspired robot with legs that can walk on the ground, hop over obstacles and jump into flight, an advance that may lead to the development of drones for complex terrains.