Pogo-Bot Goes All Terrain With Compliant Foot

Pogo-Bot Goes All Terrain With Compliant Foot

What do you get when you combine a pogo stick, a quadcopter, and engineering students from the University of Toronto? This thing, apparently– a “monopedal hopping robot” that uses a …

Toronto’s One-Foot Pogo Bot Finds Its Grip on Ice and Sand

Four small propellers sit over a single spring leg, and the pair turns a quadcopter into a machine that travels the way a pogo stick does. Researchers at the University of Toronto’s CLIMB Lab send it up with rotor thrust, then let a passive telescopic leg take the landing and hand that energy back as [...]