Thursday, 14 April 2016

FreeMotionHandling Sphere Drone Sucks Up Objects Effortlessly


We’ve already seen early plans from Amazon to create drones that can drop off packages: Now German company Festo is asking another important question – how can drones pick stuff up? The answer is a combination of several of their projects, called the FreeMotionHandling project, and it’s one of the most sci-fi things we’ve seen in real life.


This drone is basically just a big inflatable sphere combined with a ring of camera sensors, about 54 inches in diameter. All the electronics are housed in the carbon fiber camera ring, including four steering drives that…



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FreeMotionHandling Sphere Drone Sucks Up Objects Effortlessly

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