Humanoid robot iRonCub3 takes flight in Italy

This humanoid robot literally hovers! 🤯 Italian Institute of Technology has created the world’s first jet-powered humanoid robot, called iRonCub3, which can hover in mid-air using jet thrust. The robot, built with four jet engines, uses two engines on its arms and two on its pic.x.com/aDuoYAlHnb

iRonCub3: First Jet-Powered Liftoff of a Humanoid Robot Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (@IITalk), under the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence (AMI) lab, have achieved the first vertical takeoff of a jet-powered humanoid robot. The iRonCub3 lifted pic.x.com/aLulOFh5Ca

For the last few years, Italian engineers have been working on a humanoid robot for emergency response applications. The iRonCub3 has jets on its back and fire-breathers on its arms, and has now achieved stable take-off and hover for the first time. newatlas.com/ai-humanoids/ironcub3-jet-powered-humanoid-test-flight/ pic.x.com/NH62N7MjNq

Italian Institute of Technology researchers: “Jetpack. Humanoid. You're welcome.” Robot's NN-based controller was trained using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation and wind tunnel data. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44172-025-00447-w pic.x.com/kAfEibme00