Your typical robot can walk or fly, but rarely can do both. The design and technology required for locomotion differs from what is needed to glide through the air
Say hello to Robo-bat. (OK, that's not its real name). The multi-tasking robot is known as DALER, short for Deployable Air-Land Exploration Robot.
Scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne and the National Centre of Competence in Research announced their work in the journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics on Jan. 19. They found inspiration from the common vampire bat, which is unique among bats because of its terrestrial movement capabilities; it can walk, run and hop quadrupedally along the ground. Read more...
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