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 ...
RAVEN seeks to fix that problem. This bird-shaped drone can launch from a ... This advancement could massively improve the reliability and landing potential of drones and planes, they said.
RAVEN not only mimics a bird’s behavior ... VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) fixed-wing drones, but adding legs marches the vehicles into a new frontier. Designing lightweight robots ...