What do you do when your drone is too big and fat to fit through small openings? You design yourself an Aerial Robot DRAGON.. DRAGON stands for Dual-Rotor embedded multilink Robot with the Ability of multi-deGree-of-freedom aerial transformatiON. Duh. Not as smart as you think you are. And I bet you thought that putting bars on your windows would keep killer robots out of your house? Guess these yahoos have not heard of chicken wire. Chicken wire is the ultimate killer robot stopping tool. We invested heavily years ago.



There’s more potential here than just fitting through small spaces, though: The researchers conceptualize this robot as a sort of overactuated flying arm that can both form new shapes and use those shapes to interact with the world around it by manipulating objects. Eventually, DRAGON will wiggle through the air with as many as 12 interlinked modules, and it’ll use its two ends to pick up objects like a two-fingered gripper. And we can imagine DRAGON wrapping itself around stuff to move it, or using direct contact with the environment to do other exciting things.

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