Caltech Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST) · legged machine
LEONARDO
LEO
A 2.5 ft tall biped with three actuated joints per leg and four angled propeller thrusters at its shoulders; the propellers steady it while walking and can also lift it into flight. It featured on the cover of Science Robotics.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- 76 cmTaller than 32%
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A bipedal robot that uses propeller thrusters to balance while walking, letting it walk a slackline and ride a skateboard.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Caltech Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST)University lab · Pasadena, California, United StatesHow it stacks up
Against other legged & novel that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
LEONARDO (LEO) is taller than 32% of the 22 other legged & novel that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: weight, speed, payload, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
How much public attention LEONARDO (LEO) gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs
- How it runs
- Assisted. Researchers commanded it while it balanced itself with its thrusters as it walked.
- Actuators & motors
- Two legs with three actuated joints each, plus four angled propeller thrusters at the shoulders
- AI & software
- Synchronised control of thrusters and leg joints; planned neural-network landing controller
- Other details
- About 2.5 ft (76 cm) tall; hybrid walking-flying locomotion lets it walk a slackline and ride a skateboard
From the maker
LEONARDO (LEO) is the only machine from Caltech Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies in the atlas.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Research prototype
- Sold or delivered
- not sold
- Where it is sold or used
- Caltech CAST, Pasadena, United States
News
The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Caltech's LEO walks, flies and skateboards
Caltech described LEO, a biped with propeller thrusters, published in Science Robotics.
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