Fog, near-darkness, and colored lights create a nightclub-like atmosphere in Worcester Polytechnic Institute's (WPI) drone testing area. As a palm-sized drone hovers through artificial smoke and snow, it approaches a plexiglass wall autonomously and turns back, all without a single camera. This is the PeAR Bat, a revolutionary bio-inspired drone that "sees" the world through … [Read more...] about How Tiny Bat-Inspired Drones Could Transform Search and Rescue Operations
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Snake Robots And Quadcopter Frankenstein-ed Together
(Source: popsci.com) Rescue robots are better when they travel in packs. Snake bots, slithering like their reptilian namesakes, are great at crawling through narrow spaces, but they're fairly slow. Quadcopter drones can quickly fly over and around obstacles, but once on the ground they can’t too much besides take off again. A new chimera-like creation, from the Modular … [Read more...] about Snake Robots And Quadcopter Frankenstein-ed Together
