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University researchers create networked flying robots that build complex structures

Monday, January 24, 2011 14:26

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DATELINE ZERO - The robotic helicopters, equipped with a specialized grabbing mechanism for Mellinger’s latest demonstration, were shown last year to be dexterous enough to do mid-air flips, pass through windows, perch on vertical surfaces and swarm in predefined patterns.

While it was just a small-scale project, it was likely to go down as one of the first to truly show the potential of hive-mind robotic assistants.

“I think this work is a first step in autonomous aerial robotic assembly,” Mellinger said. “I think it is reasonable to say that in the near future we can have large-scale aerial robots autonomously building structures that are useful to humans.”

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