Designing a Dumb Flying Robot That Can Safely Crash Is Easier and Cheaper

As the story goes , when farmers were looking for a better path to deliver tomatos undamaged , they just mastermind a more resilient veggie . And that ’s basically the same plan of attack being take by crash - friendly vanish golem research worker at theEPFL .

or else of focalize their efforts on obstacle and collision avoidance system , which can librate a robot down with cameras and sensing element , they ’ve or else designed a flying bot that is n’t immediately demolish in a crash . Even birds still take flight into things , and most of the time they just cull themselves up and carry on . And that ’s on the nose what this robot is designed to do . In the event of a collision , a thin carbon fibre outer cage protects its rotors , as well as a circle of four retractable legs that the automaton uses to right itself after a crash .

The goal of the inquiry is to make a flying robot that ’s not only resilient , but also meretricious to build and maintain since there are minimum electronics on board to get damaged when , like all unmanned flight aircraft , it eventually crashes . [ YouTubeviaPopular Science ]