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Meet 'LEO,' The Skateboarding Robot

Part walker, part flier, LEO is the first robot that uses multi-joint legs and propeller-based thrusters to achieve a fine degree of control over its balance.

"We drew inspiration from nature. Think about the way birds are able to flap and hop to navigate telephone lines," says Soon-Jo Chung  , corresponding author and Bren Professor of Aerospace and Control and Dynamical Systems.

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    00:00:04 engineers at caltech have built a robot that combines flying and walking to create a new form of locomotion the robot is called leonardo for legs onboard drone or leo for short leo has a pair of multi-joint legs for bipedal walking but also has propeller thrusters that make its walking more stable and allow it to hop and jump the goal of leo is to give a robot

    00:00:33 unprecedented walking ability and also to study and solve problems posed by hybrid locomotion leo is capable of many tricks tightrope walking stair flying skateboard riding leo is helping engineers rethink how robots could move in the future and could open up difficult environments to robotic exploration