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The prototype in the linked video was first tested back in 2023, and since then a few startups have set their sights on the technology (e.g. Nomadic Drones and Voltair). When worki…

In their report ( https://gitlab.com/hybrid-drone/paper ) the authors mention that they implemented one controller for flying and another for diving. The transition seems to be ini…

As far as I can tell from their report ( https://gitlab.com/hybrid-drone/paper ), the authors did not consider underwater RF transmissions in their prototype design and simply use …

https://www.energy.aau.dk/aau-drone-can-both-fly-and-dive-un...

MmWave radar is commonly used for this purpose on both commercial and research UAVs, see e.g.: https://youtu.be/MORFX3CFygk

A more relevant metric than admins/professor would be admin staff/scientific staff. Given that a research group under a professor will probably contain numerous associate professor…

This is part of our research into drones for power line maintenance that we conduct at the University of Southern Denmark. You may have seen our previous work on drones that can re…

Powerline inspection and maintenance are the primary use cases for this technology. And at least this particular system is in the early spinout process via https://www.ongrid.tech/…

The gripper has several modes. There's a mode for charging the battery and providing holding force given AC powerline current, a mode for just holding the drone without charging gi…

Earlier post (also no discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39679772

The voltage of the powerline is not relevant since the charging principle is based on inductive coupling. So as long as you have a current above ~100A the harvester should work, ir…

These are our newest results from our self-recharging drone system, to be presented at ICRA later this year. You can watch a video demonstration here: https://www.youtube.com/watch…

TL;DW: A video of a drone recharging itself from a power line. My research group works on aerial robots and we recently demonstrated sustained autonomous operations by inductively …

TL;DW: A video of a drone recharging itself from a power line. My research group works on aerial robots and we recently demonstrated sustained autonomous operations by inductively …

Besides obvious issues such as minor gusts of wind, flight time, and spinning knives around eye level, this is a pretty novel idea. The amount of uses people have found for drones …

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