Future Autonomous Drones Get Arms To Perform Mission Impossible

Drones of the future resemble huge aerial androids, and scientists are working over ways to attach limbs to these autonomous aircrafts so that they can carry out work that are termed too dangerous for humans. UAVs are already employed for strikes, surveillance, checking weather forecasts and cargo transportation. But if equipped with a few required arms, they can perform rescue operations, disaster relief operations, and also hazardous infrastructure repairs too.
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The team, with a grant from the National Science Foundation, now plan to analyze the various reactions involved when the robots are equipped with arms. They'll also be studying how these Mobile Manipulating UAVs shall communicate with objects at the ground level. And they also want to make sure that while flying, these drones don't crash into each other or other structures. The design problem is quite a challenge, understands Drexel University researcher Paul Oh, and they are trying their best to build up a robot that lives up to the statement.

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