Drones Flex Their Artificial Muscles

© 2014 EPFL

© 2014 EPFL

LIS introduces a small fixed-wing drone with foldable artificial muscles, which is used for steering during flight and absorbing the impact of landing.
This technology, developed within the The Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics, could lead to fully foldable drones. See also the story on IEEE Spectrum.

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