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Fast ground-to-air transition with avian-inspired multifunctional legs.

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December 2024

Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Most birds can navigate seamlessly between aerial and terrestrial environments. Whereas the forelimbs evolved into wings primarily for flight, the hindlimbs serve diverse functions such as walking, hopping and leaping, and jumping take-off for transitions into flight. These capabilities have inspired engineers to aim for similar multimodality in aerial robots, expanding their range of applications across diverse environments.

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