{"id":200818,"date":"2024-12-06T05:24:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/roboticists-develop-a-bird-like-robot-that-can-jump-into-the-air-to-launch-itself-into-flight"},"modified":"2024-12-06T05:24:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:24:47","slug":"roboticists-develop-a-bird-like-robot-that-can-jump-into-the-air-to-launch-itself-into-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/roboticists-develop-a-bird-like-robot-that-can-jump-into-the-air-to-launch-itself-into-flight","title":{"rendered":"Roboticists develop a bird-like robot that can jump into the air to launch itself into flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ewYISBNg-6k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of roboticists at \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne, working with a colleague from the University of California, has designed, built and demonstrated a bird-like robot that can launch itself into flight using spring-like legs.<\/p>\n<p>The group describes their <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/robot\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">robot<\/a> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08228-9\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> published in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>. Aimy Wissa, an <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/aerospace+engineer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">aerospace engineer<\/a> at Princeton University, has published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-03845-w\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Views piece<\/a> in the same journal issue suggesting possible ways the innovation could be used in real-world applications.<\/p>\n<p>Some types of drones, such as those with rotors, can rise straight up off the ground\u2014others that are powered with forward-facing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/rotors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">rotors<\/a> or engines that push exhaust out the back must either race along a runway or catapult to get airborne. For this new project, the research team developed a new <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/design\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">design<\/a> for getting such craft into the air\u2014jumping using spring-like legs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of roboticists at \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne, working with a colleague from the University of California, has designed, built and demonstrated a bird-like robot that can launch itself into flight using spring-like legs. The group describes their robot in a paper published in the journal Nature. Aimy Wissa, an aerospace engineer at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}