It is sort of a drone and is inspired by the agility of birds like crows and ravens. It can walk, hop, and even fly. Raven adapts bird biomechanics to robotic locomotion. Raven has been designed ...

The robot’s developers believe a scaled-up version of the machine could be used in rescue missions and parcel deliveries in ...

The inspiration behind RAVEN came from observing how birds like crows and ravens transition seamlessly between walking, ...

RAVEN in land mode – although other groups have previously attempted to build walking/flying robots, the legs have typically proven to be too heavy for sustained flight Just like a real raven ...

Their Robotic Avian-inspired Vehicle for multiple ENvironments (RAVEN) trades traditional landing gear for a pair of bird-inspired articulated legs that allow the drone to walk around, hop over ...

Most drones on the market are rotary-wing quadcopters, which can conveniently land and take off almost anywhere. The problem is they are less energy-efficient than fixed-wing aircraft, which can fly ...

After the lights turn green again, the birds fly away and vehicles drive over the ... Biologists already knew the corvid family–it includes crows, ravens, rooks, magpies and jackdaws–to ...