Drones have been increasingly used in various domains, including ecological monitoring in
forests. However, the endurance and noise of drones have limited their deployment to short …

Soft robotics possesses expansive utilization prospects in various domains, including
medical aid, interior services, food and agriculture, and even space exploration. However …

Contrary to the stunning feats observed in birds of prey, aerial manipulation and grasping
with flying robots still lack versatility and agility. Conventional approaches using rigid …

Developable surfaces are commonly observed in various applications such as architecture,
product design, manufacturing, mechanical materials, and data physicalization as well as in …

Adaptive‐morphology multirotors exhibit superior versatility and task‐specific performance
compared to traditional multirotors owing to their functional morphological adaptability …

This article develops an impact-resilient aerial robot (s-ARQ) equipped with a compliant arm
to sense contacts and reduce collision impact and featuring a real-time contact force …

Aerial manipulator (AM) systems are significantly more effective than both conventional
manipulators and flying robots, especially in disaster rescue settings, because they can …

Adding compliance (softness) has been introduced as an effective way to improve the
physical collision resilience characteristics of multirotor micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). This …

Aerial vehicle missions require navigating trade-offs during design, such as the range,
speed, maneuverability, and size. Multi-modal aerial vehicles enable this trade-off to be …

Grasping using an aerial robot can have many applications ranging from infrastructure
inspection and maintenance to precise agriculture. However, aerial grasping is a …