Back in February of 2019, we wrote about a sort of humanoid robot thing (?) under development at Caltech, called Leonardo. LEO combines lightweight bipedal legs with torso-mounted thrusters powerful enough to lift the entire robot off the ground, which can handily take care of on-ground dynamic balancing while also enabling some slick aerial maneuvers.
In a paper published today in Science Robotics, the Caltech researchers get us caught up on what they've been doing with LEO for the past several years, and it can now skateboard, slackline, and make dainty airborne hops with exceptionally elegant landings.
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