The DALER robot can fly and walk
Posted on: January 27, 2015 /
Categories: Technology
Deployable Air-Land Exploration Robot can walk and fly.
Inspired by a vampire bat, this wing-morphing, shock-proof DALER robot can walk and fly. Inside the wings there is a foldable skeleton mechanism. Covered with a soft fabric, it can change it’s shape so that they can be used both as wings and as legs. For now it can fly to a location, land and walk. Future development of the DALER includes to hover and to take off autonomously from the ground in order to allow the robot to return to the air.
Source: http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-3190/10/1/016005/article