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Robotic Craft Mimics Falling Maple Seed

HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
edited 2009-10-28 15:37 in General Discussion
See video
www.livescience.com/common/media/video/player.php?aid=31453
LS_091022_Maple-Copter-01jpg

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  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2009-10-27 16:05
    That's really slick..

    OBC

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  • CounterRotatingPropsCounterRotatingProps Posts: 1,132
    edited 2009-10-27 17:59
    Holly,

    I forwarded the link to a helicopter pilot friend ... he·fired back "Cool man, but you ain't gonna get me to fly one of those things!" [noparse]:)[/noparse])

    - H

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  • ercoerco Posts: 20,260
    edited 2009-10-28 15:37
    Holly: this is very cool and obviously it works from the video.

    It reminds me somewhat of a powered asymetrical boomerang hyped on the last page of ROBOT magazine over a year ago. There was nothing it couldn't do. Designers promised stealthy, autonomous flight, with video. They said "image processing" would yield a 360-degree video image and because it rotated about point not on the body, it was "virtually invisible" in flight.

    Deafening silence since their last page debut! I doubt if they ever got a flying prototype. All they had was a bad webpage with several spelling errors. That's always a bad sign. If I find the mag, I'll post a link. Probably dead by now anyway!

    Prototype: good.
    Overhype: bad.

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