Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Steerable paper planes and maple seeds the basis for life-saving, disposable UAVs

Steerable paper planes and maple seeds the basis for life-saving, disposable UAVs: "The term "UAV" generally leads us to think about expensive, high-tech military drones like General Atomics' Predator, but a Robotics team led by Dr. Paul Pounds at Australia's University of Queensland has created a pair of UAVs that are so cheap and easy to manufacture that they'll literally be disposable, single use items. One's basically a high-tech paper plane, while the other follows the form factor of a maple seed with both designed to help save lives in the event of a forest fire."

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