This clever transforming robot flies and rolls on its rotating arms – TechCrunch

There's great potential in using both drones and ground-based robots for situations like disaster response, but generally these platforms either fly or creep along the ground. Not the "Flying STAR," which does both quite well, and through a mechanism so clever and simple you'll wish you'd thought of it. Conceived by researchers at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, the "flying sprawl-tuned autonomous robot" is based on the elementary observation that both rotors and wheels spin. So why shouldn't a vehicle have both? Well, there are lots of good reasons why it's difficult to create such a hybrid, but the team, led by David Zarrouk, overcame them with the help of today's high-powered, lightweight drone components.