A Mechanically Intelligent and Passive Gripper for Aerial Perching and Grasping

Physical intelligence as a new paradigm

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Compliant Bistable Grippers Enable Passive Perching for Micro Aerial Vehicles

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Flies land upside down on a ceiling using rapid visually mediated rotational maneuvers

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A Multimodal Robot for Perching and Climbing on Vertical Outdoor Surfaces

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Learning from nature how to land aerial robots

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Touchdown to take-off: at the interface of flight and surface locomotion

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Aggressive Flight With Quadrotors for Perching on Inclined Surfaces

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Toward a Unified Design Approach for Both Compliant Mechanisms and Rigid-Body Mechanisms: Module Optimization

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A Sarrus-Based Passive Mechanism for Rotorcraft Perching

(2015) Michelle L. Burroughs et al.   Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics-Transactions of the ASME

An Avian-Inspired Passive Mechanism for Quadrotor Perching

(2012) Courtney E. Doyle et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS