dreamdancer 0 #1 September 8, 2011 QuoteAdrenalin junkies, step aside: a new base-jumping robot can climb up buildings before deploying a paraglider to fly back down to earth. It is also equipped with an on-board video camera to film the jump. The robot – named Paraswift – is a collaboration between Disney Research and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and was initially built for entertainment purposes. But as the first compact robot that can both climb and fly, it has practical uses too, such as gathering aerial footage for 3D modelling systems. The remote-controlled robot uses a rotor spinning in a tube – known as an impeller – to create a vortex that lets it stick to the wall as it climbs. "It's like a mini tornado within the robot," says Paul Beardsley, who presented Paraswift yesterday at the Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines in Paris, France. The centre of this vortex is low pressure, just like the centre of a tornado, and the pressure gradient glues the robot to the wall. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20881-basejumping-robot-throws-itself-off-buildings.htmlstay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shah269 0 #2 September 8, 2011 WELL THAT'S IT We are boned! http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs12/i/2006/333/d/5/Bender_Bending_Rodrigez_by_TheJasmineDragon.jpgLife through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BrokenR1 0 #3 September 8, 2011 That was dramatically less exciting then I was expecting. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rap is to music what etch-a-sketch is to art. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #4 September 8, 2011 Quote That was dramatically less exciting then I was expecting. +1 AND it's wearing a camera with less than 200jumps (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanuckInUSA 0 #5 September 8, 2011 It needed four people holding a safety net to help break it's fall. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FreeFallFiend 0 #7 September 8, 2011 Lame. And technically not even a base jump.Fiend I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. - Thomas Hobbes. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #8 September 8, 2011 Video is far less awesome than advertised.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DougH 270 #9 September 8, 2011 No kidding, it rode up a specially designed surface! Not nearly as cool as I was hoping for."The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 60 #10 September 8, 2011 I love how the music is so suspenseful, purposefully adding tension! Maybe because the whole thing was a snooze and they needed something to keep the audience awake. lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theplummeter 15 #11 September 8, 2011 I actually designed a BASE jumping robot years ago, careful to recreate every aspect of a real BASE jumper. I never did get to see him jump, he drank all my beer, slept with my girlfriend and then disappeared. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 60 #12 September 8, 2011 lisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #13 September 9, 2011 Well, to be fair it's not a BASE jumping robot. It does 'base-jumping', whatever that is. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
