New drone has legs for landing gear, enabling efficient launches
Briefly

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 ground robots, making them too bulky for a flying machine.
'The RAVEN robot can walk, hop over obstacles, and do a jumping takeoff like real birds,' says Won Dong Shin, an engineer leading the project, emphasizing its bio-inspired design.
Read at Ars Technica
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