The key challenge in attaching legs to drones was that they significantly increased mass and complexity. State-of-the-art robotic legs were designed for robots walking on the ground and were too ...

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 ...

They're just hard to launch and land. A team of Swiss researchers has devised a possible solution by slapping some legs on a drone known as the RAVEN. This new drone takes its inspiration from ...

RAVEN’s unique design uses lightweight but functional robotic legs with flexible feet and joints. These innovations allow the ...

“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 optimisation, researchers said Raven’s leg ...

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.