Washington, Nov 3 (ANI): The robotics team at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is currently working on a flying robot that is small as a dinner plate, and can be pecked away in a suitcase.
The pint-sized propeller-powered robots also have multiple cameras, which enable them to "see" the world around them as they navigate their way through buildings, carrying out various tasks assigned to them.
"You'll be able to put your suitcase on the ground, open it up and send the flying robot off to do its job," Professor Peter Corke, from the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, said
"These robots could fly around and deliver objects to people inside buildings and inspect things that are too high or difficult for a human to reach easily.
"Instead of having to lower someone down on a rope to a window on the seventh floor, or raise them up on a cherrypicker, you could send up the flying robot instead," he said.
The researchers at QUT are using cost-effective technology so that the robots are easily affordable and aim at attaching arms to the robot by next year so that it can also fix things. (ANI)
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