• @[email protected]
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    016 days ago

    The title is misleading. Calling it a robot is being very generous. It’s basically a propeller with magnets attached such that, if you stick it inside an externally generated magnetic field, it can fly. It’s completely passive and does not have any onboard sensors.

    • burgersc12
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      016 days ago

      Sounds like a paper airplane would make a better “battery-free, flying robot” than this thing, all you need is an arm to throw it

    • @[email protected]
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      016 days ago

      Robot comes from the word roboto, that is work, no? If it can do autonomous work, it is a robot.