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- 1Crash-Resistant Tiny Flying Robot Moves Toward Real-World Flight▼Built to Take a Hit: Tiny Flying Robot is a Step Closer to Flight Beyond the Lab
Engineers at UC Davis have developed a tiny flying robot designed to survive collisions, a key step toward taking such devices out of the laboratory and into real-world environments. The work, highlighted by the university's College of Engineering, suggests small drones that can bump into obstacles without breaking could eventually be used for tasks like navigating cluttered indoor spaces or disaster sites where crashes are unavoidable.