Don't Worry. Quadrotor Robots too Small to Carry You Off. Not Your Kids.

You know how it goes. You buy one, two, eighty quadrotor flying robots at Christmas for your kids. Ya know, because the little gripping mechanism on their belly is just so cute. All of a sudden, the kiddos are being carried off to the mother quadrotor for experimentation.

If you saw the copterbot pulling baby g’s and aerial acrobatics before, you’ll love the team spirit they’ve been endowed with this time. GRASP Labs, University of Pennsylvania, has no qualms about robots and the possibilities they have in serving the greater good our demise. Take a look.

From TheDmel via Youtube – “That first block plus the gripping mechanism weighs 460 grams. The total max thrust is about 1250 grams (the quadrotor weighs 500 grams).”

The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab uses quite a bit of software to design their experiments, among them SolidWorks and Pro/E. They hold a three week summer program in robotics for high school students where they use SolidWorks to develop vehicles that crawl about and compete against each other.

Via Engadget