Italian researchers are very close to developing a humanoid robot that can fly. iRonCub is a humanoid robot and has been given the look of a kid, equipped with four jet packs. The researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology have been working on this iron man-like humanoid for five years. It was intended to develop a robot that can fly and accomplish the robot is equipped with two jet packs on its back and one on both forearms.
The head of the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence lab at IIT has said that these types of robots can help in improving flying robots and would be useful technologically, socially, and scientifically as well.