It seems that drones do seem to be playing more and more major roles in our lives, where they are useful to deliver medicine in rural areas, not to mention to scout for the amount of environmental damage across the vast landscape. Search and Rescue missions too, would be able to benefit a whole lot from drones. Having said that, most of the drones that we know off take off and land in a vertical manner – which is something that researchers at Stanford intend to change.
In other words, they intend to equip drones with the ability to land on walls vertically, or even upside down, now how about that? Such a setup is not simple at all, as it requires two parts: first of all, a rigid tail, as well as a pair of “microspines.” The tail will enable the drone to position itself in the correct place when it lands, while the pair of microspines will be dragged along the wall, with hopes that they will be able to get a grasp on microscopic grooves in the surface so that it can remain stuck.
This will no doubt make sure that army drones used for surveillance will be all the more realistic in their approach when eavesdropping, although it should be some time before consumer-level drones receive such a feature.
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