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Now, machine bridge making is taking to the air—and swapping drones for 3D printers. Dubbed the Aerial Construction project, ETH Zurich researchers equipped several quadcopters with spools of ...

is to set a new record for free rappelling off a bridge. (Free rappelling is descending a rope without touching a cliff or some other vertical plane.) But clearly there’s more going on in Fuller ...

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 ...