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A talon-like claw with crisp ends and a softer mediate helps this flying robot grasp onto bladed perches conscionable similar a bird
Technology 15 December 2022By Alex Wilkins
This bird-like robot has a claw that it could usage to perch connected branches it has flown to. It could perchance beryllium utile for collecting samples successful hard-to-reach places oregon silently observing animals successful their earthy habitat.
Landing and perching connected a subdivision is casual for astir birds, but it is precise hard for robots that alert similar birds due to the fact that of their larger size and the complexity of landing connected a bladed object.
Now, Raphael Zufferey astatine the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology successful Lausanne and his colleagues person developed a robotic vertebrate – which has a 1.5-metre wingspan …
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