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Eat This Drone

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For anyone interested in digesting the paper, it is titled Towards edible drones for rescue missions: design and flight of nutritional wings , by Bokeon Kwak, Jun Shintake, Lu Zhang, and Dario Floreano from EPFL. It’s a process that’s fast, simple, and cheap. The structure and tail surfaces are made of carbon fiber and foam.

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Flexible Monocopter Drone Can Be Completely Rolled Up

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This type of drone is called a monocopter, and the design is very generally based on samara seeds, which are those single-wing seed pods that spin down from maple trees. There may not be a lot going on here hardware-wise, but that's part of the charm of this design. What is required to fly it outside of a motion capture environment?