SUTD's Albatross robot spins down from the sky and then sails on its own

Engineers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design have built Albatross, a sensor platform that autorotates like a maple seed when dropped from a drone and then sails using the same body. In field tests it was released from 150 m, landed on a reservoir and followed GPS waypoints for three hours. The work, published in Science Robotics, is still a feasibility study.

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