Engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a walking robot/flying drone hybrid that reportedly can perform complex locomotion tasks beyond “simple walking and flying.” ...

Researchers at Caltech have built a drone-robot hybrid that can do it all. LEONARDO, short for LEgs ONboARD drOne (if that's too much of a mouthful, it also goes by LEO), is a bipedal robot that can ...

Most robots have one means of locomotion—they might roll, fly, walk, or even swim. Rarely do they do more than one, though. Engineers at Caltech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST) ...

Specialized robots that can both fly and drive typically touch down on land before attempting to transform and drive away. But when the landing terrain is rough, these robots sometimes get stuck and ...

Leonardo, a newly-developed robot with the ability to fly and walk, is tested at Caltech. Researchers believe the machine could someday be used to traverse difficult landscapes on earth or other on ...

Imagine a robot that can transform between "flying drone" and "wheeled rover" configurations. It could potentially be quite useful, but only if it works in real-world conditions. The ATMO bot was ...

In research centers around the world, roboticists have for decades been on a quest to perfect bipedal locomotion in machines. They’re making progress, but for all the flashy shots of back-flipping, ...