As they work to build the bridge, the rope applies external forces and torque back to the drones, which needs to be calculated and corrected for. This ensures that the drones can maintain steady ...

Watch Two Drones Build A Rope Bridge. Published Sep 23, 2015 at 12:16 PM EDT Updated Apr 20, 2016 at 4:15 PM EDT. ... (23 feet) rope bridge strong enough to support the weight of a human.

Soon, drones will be used to build bridges. Literally. Peter Farrelly On ‘Ricky Stanicky,’ How John Cena Is The Best Prepared Actor He’s Ever Worked With, And Why He Still Takes Reviews So ...

Dubbed the Aerial Construction project, ETH Zurich researchers equipped several quadcopters with spools of lightweight (but strong) rope, set up two scaffold anchors, measured and set their ...

In the video below, a team of Swiss engineers uses drones to build a rope bridge. It’s easy to see how this could be useful in emergency situations like earthquakes or mountain-rescue attempts ...

The materials weighs just 7 g per meter (0.25 oz per 3.3 ft) and a rope 4 mm (0.15 in) in diameter can support 1,300 kg (2,866 lb), making it the ideal material for aerial construction.

Research drones in Switzerland can now build a rope bridge on demand, a pivotal breakthrough in the field of aerial construction. Each drone was outfitted with a specialized mechanism for ...

The idea is to use small quadcopters to build structures that humans can then use. In this case, they made a rope bridge. View full post on Youtube.

Drones were programmed to carry out the arial task required to created the rope bridge that is capable of taking the weight of up to 1300 kg over the 7.4m long span that connect two scaffolding ...

When quadcopters play cat’s cradle, they build bridges. Menu. Science. Watch These Drones Build a Bridge Out of Rope. When quadcopters play cat’s cradle, they build bridges. by Ben Guarino ...

Researchers at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control and Gramazio Kohler Research used three drones to build a 7.4m long bridge from a durable low-weight rope known as Dyneema.