Embodied aerial physical interaction: Combining body and brain for robust interaction with unstructured environments

Emanuele Aucone^{1

2}, Stefano Mintchev^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Environmental Robotics Laboratory, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
² Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.

Review

Emanuele Aucone et al. Sci Robot. 2025.

. 2025 May 21;10(102):eads0200.

doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.ads0200. Epub 2025 May 21.

Emanuele Aucone^{1

2}, Stefano Mintchev^{1

2}

¹ Environmental Robotics Laboratory, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
² Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.

Abstract

Using body morphology and touch sensing to simplify control strategies can boost versatility in aerial physical interaction.