Ideas
By Ryan Sager
Sure, drones can take videos of Martha Stewart’s farm and maybe even save the environment. But… can they unscrew a bottle cap? Play Twister? Spin a dreidel? Do anything that involves having arms? Well, now we have a drone with arms—that can fly and turn a valve wheel mid-air.
Above is the video, and here’s the paper’s title and abstract (flip to 1:00 in the video to see the really cool stuff):
I, for one, welcome our new armed-drone overlords.
(via IEEE Spectrum)
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