{"id":17680,"date":"2015-09-22T02:25:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T09:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/watch-two-drones-build-a-bridge-strong-enough-for-humans"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:37:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:37:19","slug":"watch-two-drones-build-a-bridge-strong-enough-for-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/watch-two-drones-build-a-bridge-strong-enough-for-humans","title":{"rendered":"Watch two drones build a bridge strong enough for humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CCDIuZUfETc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two quadrocopters construct a rope bridge strong enough to carry the weight of a human in the hypnotic video (above), uploaded to YouTube this week by researcher Federico Augugliaro. The impressive feat wasn\u2019t a one-person operation. It\u2019s the latest accomplishment from many researches and contributors at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control and Gramazio Kohler Research, and incorporates lessons learned from other tests at the<a style=\"background-;\" href=\"http:\/\/flyingmachinearena.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Flying Machine Arena<\/a> in Zurich, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-by-10-by-10-meter portable space doubles as the setting of the footage and the lab in which many of the researchers, including Augugliaro, perform drone experiments and exercises. According to the Flying Machine Arena\u2019s website, the room \u201cconsists of a high-precision motion capture system, a wireless communication network, and custom software executing sophisticated algorithms for estimation and control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Drone bridge GIF\" class=\"vox-lazy-load m-chorus-asset__in-entry-body\" data-chorus-asset-id=\"4083014\" data-full-size=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-two-drones-build-a-bridge-strong-enough-for-humans.gif\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn2.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/4083014\/ropebridge.0.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drones_quadrocopters_build_bridge_video_utm_campaign_theverge_utm_content_chorus_utm_medium_social_utm_source_twitter.gif\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Drone bridge GIF\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-two-drones-build-a-bridge-strong-enough-for-humans.gif\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/9\/21\/9366319\/drones-quadrocopters-build-bridge-video?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two quadrocopters construct a rope bridge strong enough to carry the weight of a human in the hypnotic video (above), uploaded to YouTube this week by researcher Federico Augugliaro. The impressive feat wasn\u2019t a one-person operation. It\u2019s the latest accomplishment from many researches and contributors at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control and Gramazio [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64114,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17680\/revisions\/64114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}