Won Dong Shin and his colleagues overcame these engineering challenges to design a robot with ... as there have been jumping gliding robots, but not jumping flying robots." Shin said that he ...

Birds use the powerful explosive force generated by their legs to leap into the air and start flying, but building a robot that can withstand the strong acceleration and forces involved in doing ...

Straight from Italy, a new kind of flying ... humanoid robots. The latest, named iRonCub3, can soar through the air just like Iron Man or Astro Boy. Unlike these two fictional characters, this ...

To aid in such endeavors, engineers from Disney Research’s robotics team have devised innovative solutions that give a soft landing to various flying robots and equipment used in the ...

and while that sounds impressive the robot’s insect-like design and sudden switch to flying can definitely scare anyone. LEO is short for LEONARDO which is again short for LEgs ONboARD drOne.

iRonCub has been developed by researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), and it’s been some five years in the making for this Iron Man-like flying robot. The idea behind iRonCub ...