Abstract Purpose of Review The goal of this review is to evaluate the current status of multi-
robot systems in the context of search and rescue. This includes an investigation of their …

Small-scale rotorcraft unmanned robotic systems (SRURSs) are a kind of unmanned
rotorcraft with manipulating devices. This review aims to provide an overview on aerial …

Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents,
assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have undergone rapid developments in recent decades. This
has made them very popular for various military and civilian applications allowing us to …

The aerial manipulator is a special and new type of flying robot composed of a rotorcraft
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a/several manipulator/s. It has gained a lot of attention …

Millimeter-sized electrostatic film actuators, inspired by the efficient spatial arrangement of
insect muscles, achieve a muscle-like power density (61 W kg− 1) and enable robotic …

Insect-sized (100 mg) aerial robots have advantages over larger robots because of their
small size, low weight, and low materials cost. Previous iterations have demonstrated …

A small-scale jumping–crawling robot expands the accessible region of a robot by
selectively performing suitable locomotion type. However, the parallel elastic actuation for …

By taking the complementary advantage of multicopters and ground vehicles, air-ground
vehicles have shown great potential in various fields due to their superior mobility and …

This letter presents a hybrid flying and climbing robot which we named FCSTAR. This new
robot, an upgraded version of FSTAR, is designed for climbing over slopes and is fitted with …