Sure, drones can take videos of Martha Stewart’s farm and maybe even save the environment. But… can they unscrew a bottle cap? Play Twister? Spin a dreidel? Do anything that involves having arms? Well, now we have a drone with arms—that can fly and turn a valve wheel mid-air. Above is the video, and here’s the paper’s title and abstract (flip to 1:00 in the video to see the really cool stuff): “Towards Valve Turning using a Dual-Arm Aerial Manipulator,” by Christopher Korpela, Matko Orsag, and Paul Oh, from Drexel University. We propose a framework for valve turning using an aerial vehicle endowed with dual multi-degree of freedom manipulators.

 

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