Drones autonomously build rope bridge

Posted on 23 Sep 2015 by Michael Cruickshank

A team in Switzerland has managed to use quadcopter drones in order to build a small bridge between two points.

Researchers at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich have, for the first time, demonstrated the use of small drones for the construction of a larger structure. A team of three specialised quadcopter drones was used to build a rope bridge with enough structural strength to carry the weight of a person…

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