New flexible drone can withstand collisions without sacrificing speed or agility

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech) at 03 Nov, 14:20 UTC

For more than a hundred years, quadcopters have been built according to the same basic principle. Four arms, each with a propeller, extend from a rigid central body. This design is ideal for precise, agile flight, but it has one major weakness—the drones are highly sensitive to unexpected contact…