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January 7, 2018 10:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uS2fzS7cF-8/pentagon-seeks-laser-powered-bat-drones
Pentagon Seeks Laser-Powered Bat Drones
Zorro quotes DefenseOne:A new contest seeks flight systems inspired by Mother Nature and powered by directed-energy beams. Tired: multi-rotor copters and fixed-wing drones. Wired: flying robots that move like living animals, are crafted of next-generation materials, and draw their power not from batteries but energy beamed from nearby aircraft... "The biological study of agile organisms such as bats and flying insects has yielded new insights into complex flight kinematics of systems with a large number of degrees of freedom, and the use of multi-functional flight surface materials," the announcement reads. The Air Force believes that more and more naturalistic design -- coupled with more powerful and smaller sensors to form a better picture of the outside world -- should yield "significant improvements in maneuverability, survivability and stealth over traditional quadcopter or fixed wing designs." The article includes a link to a CalTech video showing footage of an advanced robotic bat.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uS2fzS7cF-8/pentagon-seeks-laser-powered-bat-drones
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