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For the Bio-inspired Soft Aerial at RoboSoft 2024, we are now looking for both poster and live demonstration submissions: soft-aerial-robotics.com/call-for-robot… Please contact us directly for any further information. We are very excited to see your contributions!

🤖 Delighted to join the editorial board of #npjRobotics! Honored to be part of a team npj Journals. Send us your best #robotics research and make an impact! nature.com/npjrobot/

Congratulations, Dario! Well-deserved recognition! 🏆👏

I am really thrilled to announce the launch of my lab, called DRAGON lab, at the University of Tokyo! We are welcoming anybody who is interested in working on robotics and automation, especially in the aerial domain. Our lab website: dragon.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Adding a telescopic leg beneath a #quadcopter to create a hopping drone Science Robotics techxplore.com/news/2024-04-a…

Pogo Stick Microcopter Bounces off Floors and Walls spectrum.ieee.org/jumping-robot-…

🚀 Join us tomorrow (Apr, 14) at RoboSoft in San Diego for the Bio-inspired Soft Aerial workshop! Explore groundbreaking aerial robotics with us. Don't miss out! 🤖✈️ #RoboSoft2024 #Robotics #Workshop

In Science Robotics, researchers introduce the #Hopcopter, a #microrobot that combines hopping and flying for maximum agility. Learn more: scim.ag/6Da

Excited to share that I will join the Department of Biomedical Engineering CityU Hong Kong as a tenure-track #Presidential Assistant Professor in July 2024! 🇭🇰 Sincerely appreciate all the strong support from Wei Gao Caltech, Alice Zhang Peking University, professors and friends! 🎉

Boosting speed + power in soft/micro robots promises unprecedented versatility. Join us at the #ICRA2024 impulsive motion workshop on May 13, where innovation meets agility! 🚀 #MicroRobotics #SoftRobotics #Yokohama Dieter Büchler Mirko Kovac 🔗 ris-lab.github.io/impulsive/

Congratulations to Dr. Siyi Xu, a postdoc in the group, on accepting a faculty position in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (UIUC).  Siyi was an undergraduate researcher with us back at UIUC.  She left to complete a PhD with

Rhinoceros beetles and mini drones passively deploy and retract wings by leveraging centrifugal forces and stored elastic energy instead of dedicated actuators nature.com/articles/s4158… EPFL Mechanical Engineering

This drone is designed to split in two mid-flight Researchers from City University of Hong Kong have developed a transformable quadcopter made up of two bicopters, each with just two propellers. Despite differences in flight modes, both the bicopter and quadcopter

Insect drones 💡 MIT researchers developed a new generation of insect-sized drones with impressive agility and resilience, inspired by the acrobatic flight of insects. These tiny drones use innovative soft actuators, enabling them to navigate cramped spaces and withstand

Wind gust rejection with on-the-fly adaptation of wing and tail configuration in avian-inspired drones nature.com/articles/s4418… EPFL School of Engineering Interested in design, vision-based flight, and manoeuvre learning of next-gen avian-inspired drones? epfl.ch/labs/lis/open-…

Hip, hop, and up in the air! Bird-inspired legs give winged drones multiple locomotion abilities and save energy when jumping for take-off nature.com/articles/s4158… EPFL with Auke Ijspeert and Monica Daley UC Irvine Open access (pre-review) version: arxiv.org/abs/2412.02389

Meet the Wheeled Legged Drone! Researchers at City University of Hong Kong have unveiled a hybrid aerial-ground robot that moves seamlessly between flight and wheeled mobility. Equipped with a reconfigurable single-wheeled leg, it maintains stability in stance mode and achieves

🚀 We’ve created a subgram hopper that combines flight and jumping! 🦗✈️ 🔋 64% less power consumption 🏋️ 10× payload capacity ⛰️ traversing complex terrain Collab with the amazing team, Yi-Hsuan (Nemo) Hsiao and Kevin Chen 📄 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🎥 youtu.be/eJLy1_z9FNo

A “hopping,” insect-scale robot demonstrates locomotion efficiency by crossing difficult terrains, overcoming obstacles, and even performing somersaults using its flapping wings and single leg. Yi-Hsuan (Nemo) Hsiao Pakpong Chirarattananon scim.ag/3RFUtyR