Chinese engineers taught bipedal robot to fly

Now the robot is at the prototype stage: the authors showed how their development takes off several times. In 2022

This year they plan to share new details at the ICRA conference.

Bipedal robots are one of the most promising designs: they can be used to navigate complex terrain, for example, adapt to changes in height and other external objects.

But not all obstacles can be overcome by such robots.overcome, so the authors of the new work solved the problem with the help of a separate companion drone, which either simply inspects the area at heights, or helps the robot climb up.

Chinese engineers have made a robot with fourfans: it can come off the floor completely. By design, this is a robot with two legs, in the middle of each there is a fan, so that the thrust vector runs along the leg. 

So far, engineers have tested the robot only on short flights, during which they had to hold it by the safety guides.

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