Robotic legs aren't very efficient ... RAVEN is more versatile than other fixed-wing drone designs. It can jump over obstacles as tall as 26 centimeters or as wide as 11 centimeters.

Quadcopter drones may offer more flexibility when ... and experimental iterations.” The final design for the legs uses a combination of springs and motors to mimic “powerful avian tendons ...

The key challenge in attaching legs to drones was that they ... the team’s calculations was that a fixed-wing drone with a more conventional design, one using wheels or a launcher, would be ...

Based on this reasoning, a team of researchers set out to give flying drones their own bird-inspired legs, with their findings published in Nature (preprint on ArXiv). The prototype RAVEN (Robotic ...

In addition to elucidating the costs and benefits of powerful legs in birds that frequently transition between air and ground, the results offer a lightweight design for winged drones that can ...

A group of researchers have created a working drone that combines ... but the beauty of the bird-like design is that, like its real-life counterparts, the legs are a means of mobility, obstacle ...

The jumping strategy, according to scientists, “allowed the drone to take off in a wider range of circumstances and at higher initial speed, thus leading to a more stable take-off”. With further ...

The new leg design enabled the robot to perform a range ... The jumping strategy, according to scientists, “allowed the drone to take off in a wider range of circumstances and at higher initial ...