Flying robot can also ride a skateboard and balance on a rope

Technology 6 October 2021

By Chris Stokel-Walker

A two-legged robot inspired by birds tin walk, skateboard, alert and equilibrium connected a slackline, which is similar a escaped tightrope. It could perchance go a caller instrumentality to show infrastructure successful hard-to-reach environments.

The robot, named LEONARDO by its creators astatine the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Northeastern University successful Boston, is simply a human-like instrumentality with knee, hep and ankle joints, but rotor blades for arms that springiness it upward thrust.

LEONARDO is 75 centimetres tall, weighs 2.6 kilograms and walks astatine up to 20cm per second. It is “the archetypal robot to execute seamless integration of walking …