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00:00 ▶ Intro
00:15 ▶ 1. Dipper - ETH Zurich
02:10 ▶ 2. Parrot - ANAFI Ai
03:57 ▶ 3. Autonomous Flying Drone - LEICA BLK2FLY
06:05 ▶ 4. Tando Drone - Indoor Robotics
07:35 ▶ 5. Prometheus - Folding Drone
09:24 ▶ 6. Flapping Wing Drone -
▶1. Dipper: A Dynamically Transitioning Aerial-Aquatic Unmanned Vehicle
Meet the Dipper: a dynamic aerial-aquatic drone that can fly and swim. It has a max cruising speed of 70 km/h and a range of 5km. Dipper can also dive from 150m at 130 km/h. It can swim for 10 minutes at a speed of 9km/h. As the researchers explain:
This incredible innovation in drone technology is the brainchild of a group of 8 engineering students from ETH Zurich - a fixed wing drone that can be launched into the skies and seamlessly transition from air to water.
Taking it’s inspiration from the natural world and looking to mimic the action of diving seabirds, this potentially groundbreaking project gives us a glimpse into the future. The drone can be launched into the air where it can then dive underwater and move freely in any direction. On reaching the surface again, it can expand it’s wings and take off from the water’s surface to become airborne once more.
The vehicle has only one main propulsion motor, and uses a novel clutch system to engage either the front tractor propeller for flight in air, or the rear ship’s screw propeller for underwater propulsion.
👉• dipper.ethz.ch/
www.roboticsproceedings.org/rs...
▶ 2. Parrot introduces ANAFI Ai: the first 4G robotic UAV
Providing professionals features that really matter:
• 4G as the new communications standard
• 48 MP imaging accuracy
• Intelligent obstacle avoidance for autonomous photogrammetry missions
• A unique robotic platform with the first open-source piloting application
• A Secure Element that protects both the integrity of the software and the privacy of data transferred
👉• www.parrot.com/en/drones/anaf...
▶ 3. LEICA BLK2FLY - Autonomous Flying Laser Scanner
Advanced obstacle avoidance for easy reality capture from the sky.
It captures building exteriors, structures, and environments to create 3D point clouds while flying. The BLK2FLY is designed to be easy-to-use: with a few simple taps on a tablet, users can set the BLK2FLY aloft to autonomously scan building exteriors and features, such as hard-to-access areas like rooftops and facades. Deploying the device itself is as easy as unfolding it, switching it on with the press of a button and placing it on the ground, ready for takeoff.
👉• blk2021.com/blk2fly/
▶ 4. Tando Drone is Designed to Serve as a Flying Security Guard
Tando, a drone that is mounted on a dock attached to the ceiling like a fan to automatically monitor a room at a set time or remote control from the outside.
Indoor surveillance drone that is equipped with a flight system using artificial intelligence to avoid obstacles in a narrow space or to fly automatically if necessary.
👉• www.indoor-robotics.com/
▶ 5. Folding Drone Can Drop Into Inaccessible Mines - Prometheus
Inspecting old mines is a dangerous business. For humans, mines can be lethal: prone to rockfalls and filled with noxious gases. Robots can go where humans might suffocate, but even robots can only do so much when mines are inaccessible from the surface.
Now, researchers in the UK, led by Headlight AI, have developed a drone that could cast a light in the darkness. Named Prometheus, this drone can enter a mine through a borehole not much larger than a football, before unfurling its arms and flying around the void. Once down there, it can use its payload of scanning equipment to map mines where neither humans nor robots can presently go. This, the researchers hope, could make mine inspection quicker and easier. The team behind Prometheus published its design in November in the journal Robotics.
👉• www.headlight.ai/
▶ 6. Is It a Bird, a Plane ? Not Superman, But a Flapping Wing Drone
A drone prototype that mimics the aerobatic manoeuvres of one of the world's fastest birds, the swift, is being developed by an international team of engineers in the latest example of biologically inspired flight. A research team from Singapore, Australia, China and Taiwan has designed a 26 gram ornithopter (flapping wing aircraft) which can hover, dart, glide, brake and dive just like a swift, making them more versatile, safer and quieter than the existing quadcopter drones.
👉• www.eng.nus.edu.sg/
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