2025
Pinto: A Latched Spring Actuated Robot for Jumping and Perching
ICRA 2025
Arboreal environments challenge current robots but are deftly traversed by many familiar animals such as squirrels. We present a small, 450 g robot “Pinto” developed for tree-jumping, a behavior seen in squirrels but rarely in legged robots: jumping from the ground onto a vertical tree trunk. We dev