The Daler can fly through the air with grace, but the fun doesn’t stop when this remote-controlled robot lands.
The wings segment, and it clambers across the ground like an ungainly pterodactyl or bat.
Most robots only use one type of locomotion. They fly through the air (raining death from above, in the case of US military drones), swim through the seas, like the Sharkbot or this robotic jellyfish, orcrawl, run, and roll across the earth.
However, the Daler—Deployable air land exploration robot—uses “adaptive morphology” to master the skies and the earth. It has a wingspan of 60cm, and using its battery-powered “Whegs”—wheel-legs—can fly for 30 minutes or walk for an hour.
via Ars Technica
Image: EFPL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems
