if the plans get the go-ahead, will replace a former railway viaduct. Peter Ladd, proposals director of Cleveland Bridge, said: "We have looked at the possibility of building a rope bridge across ...

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A PLAN to build what could be the world’s longest rope bridge may be resurrected after groups behind the scheme started discussions about a scaled-down project. The idea to build a £4.5m ...

Who needs to sling webs when you have rope-spinning drones? That’s the gist of a new project from Swiss science university ETH Zurich, in which quadcopters work in tandem to weave a bridge.

The final result of the rope-bridge structure constructed by the drones. The final result of the rope-bridge structure constructed by the drones. Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control and ...

Like, for example, this trio of drones building a rope bridge. Rope bridges are useful structures, but they’re complex ones and they’re often needed in urgent situations to get people across ...