Nimbus Group has created a hole-digging drone that saves its battery power by parachuting off another mode of transportation. This drone is so smart that it can detect whether the ground is too hard to dig and will look for a better location.
This hole-digging drone parachutes in to get the job done
A new drone from the NIMBUS group at the University of Nebraska can fall out of a plane, parachute down, fly to a certain place, dig a hole, hide sensors inside it and then fly away like some crazy wasp. Robots are weird. The goal of the project is to allow drones to place sensors […]
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