By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning DailyNews Daily News - “As the crow flies” is a common idiom referring to the shortest distance betweentwo points, but the Laboratory of Int elligent Systems (LIS), led by Dario Floreano, in EPFL’s Schoolof Engineering h as taken the phrase literally with RAVEN (Robotic Avian-inspired Vehicle for mul tipleENvironments). Designed based on perching birds like ravens and crows that frequently switch betweenair and land, the multifunctional robotic legs allow it to take off autonomously in environments previouslyinaccessible to winged dr ones.
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