To perform the task of bridge-building, the drones are fitted with a motorised spool of rope. This allows the drone to control the rope's tension as they unspool it, guided by a plastic tube to a ...

Must adapt for 3rd world IE India, Africa, SE Asia, alone, So America to build simple rope bridges, awesome, Now upscale or longer bridges alone. MichiganDave September 22, 2015 01:49 PM.

Dubbed the Aerial Construction project, ETH Zurich researchers equipped several quadcopters with spools of lightweight (but strong) rope, set up two scaffold anchors, measured and set their ...

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Watch Two Drones Build A Rope Bridge. Published Sep 23, 2015 at 12:16 PM EDT Updated Apr 20, 2016 at 4:15 PM EDT. The final result of the rope-bridge structure constructed by the drones.

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Research drones in Switzerland can now build a rope bridge on demand, a pivotal breakthrough in the field of aerial construction. Each drone was outfitted with a specialized mechanism for ...

The pair of drones you can see in the video use a spool of rope – about 120m between the two of them — to construct a rope bridge across a seven-metre gap, capable of supporting a human.