{"id":8574,"date":"2017-08-04T06:45:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T14:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/04\/news-2347\/"},"modified":"2017-08-04T06:45:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T14:45:25","slug":"news-2347","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/04\/news-2347\/","title":{"rendered":"This Drone Has Claws, Lands on a Vertical Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59848689e7d6270342003aa6\/lede\/1501857459503-Screen-Shot-2017-08-04-at-101145-AM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:40:51 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> There&#8217;s perhaps nothing more terrifying to me than a spying drone peeking into my window. <\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;m here to let you know that my nightmare has officially gotten worse. This drone doesn&#8217;t just hover, it&#8217;s capable of covertly perching itself on a vertical wall, just like a fly does.<\/p>\n<p> Designed by Createk Design Lab at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usherbrooke.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke<\/a> in Quebec, Canada, the <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-63537-8_26\" target=\"_blank\">Multimodal Autonomous Drone<\/a> (S-MAD) can repeatedly land vertically and take off again. Lucky for me, it wasn&#8217;t designed for spying. <\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 655px;\" data-iframely-id=\"7yLtZnR\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 47.2527%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Instead, the team at Sherbrooke imagines the S-MAD could one day be used for less creepy tasks, like aerial monitoring after an earthquake or assisting with building inspections.<\/p>\n<p> The drone can land vertically because it&#8217;s equipped with a &#8220;wall detection range sensor&#8221; that helps it know when to start moving upward in anticipation of a vertical surface. It also has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/microspine-grippers\" target=\"_blank\">microspine grippers<\/a> which allow it to cling to a wall once it makes contact. The S-MAD can land on both rough and smooth surfaces, indoors and outdoors. <\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 521px;\" data-iframely-id=\"hwwdZv6\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 54.3779%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> The drone was presented at the 2017 <a href=\"http:\/\/livingmachinesconference.eu\/2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">Living Machines<\/a> conference at Stanford last month. The event explores future technologies that are based on biological systems found in the natural world. The S-MAD was designed to mimic the landing techniques used by small birds. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/evzyqm\/this-drone-can-gracefully-land-on-a-vertical-wall\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59848689e7d6270342003aa6\/lede\/1501857459503-Screen-Shot-2017-08-04-at-101145-AM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:40:51 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke designed the sweet device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10643,13328,10378],"tags":[8244,1642,8150,13339,12080],"class_list":["post-8574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent","category-motherboard","category-security","tag-birds","tag-canada","tag-drones","tag-fly","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}