Friday, June 10, 2011

Japanese spherical flying robot

From IEEE Automation: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/japanese-ministry-of-defense-spends-1000-on-flying-robot-soccer-ball

Not much too say about this one, but I like that it lands by just falling on the ground and rolling to absorb the shock (it self rights afterwards). A cool way to transfer energy. It also has one big rotor and it steers with 8 flaps. Also different from all the quadroters I've seen (4 propellers for flying and steering).


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