{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/ironcub-3-the-jet-powered-flying-humanoid","title":"iRonCub 3: The Jet-Powered Flying Humanoid Robot","arxiv_id":"2506.01125","date":"2025-06-01","proceeding":null,"authors":["Davide Gorbani","Hosameldin Awadalla Omer Mohamed","Giuseppe L'Erario","Gabriele Nava","Punith Reddy Vanteddu","Shabarish Purushothaman Pillai","Antonello Paolino","Fabio Bergonti","Saverio Taliani","Alessandro Croci","Nicholas James Tremaroli","Silvio Traversaro","Bruno Vittorio Trombetta","Daniele Pucci"],"abstract":"This article presents iRonCub 3, a jet-powered humanoid robot, and its first flight experiments. Unlike traditional aerial vehicles, iRonCub 3 aims to achieve flight using a full-body humanoid form, which poses unique challenges in control, estimation, and system integration. We highlight the robot's current mechanical and software architecture, including its propulsion system, control framework, and experimental infrastructure. The control and estimation framework is first validated in simulation by performing a takeoff and tracking a reference trajectory. Then, we demonstrate, for the first time, a liftoff of a jet-powered humanoid robot - an initial but significant step toward aerial humanoid mobility. Also, we detail how the experimental area around a jet-powered humanoid robot should be designed in order to deal with a level of complexity that is substantially superior than indoor humanoid robot experiments.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01125v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.01125v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"ironcub-3-the-jet-powered-flying-humanoid","repo_url":"https://github.com/ami-iit/paper_gorbani_mohamed_2025_ironcub3","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}