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Is LEO the most disturbing drone yet?

David MacQuarrie - Oct. 6th 2021 3:20 pm PT

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Engineers at Caltech have developed a drone that walks, skateboards, balances on a tightrope, and can probably leap tall buildings in a single bound. It’s super, but it sure is weird. Get a load of LEO the creepy drone.

Caltech & NASA create autonomous SQUID drone

Josh Spires - Sep. 1st 2020 8:57 am PT @JoshSpires_

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Engineers from Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab built a three-inch drone that could be launched from a barrel. It’s called SQUID, or the Streamlined Quick Unfolding Investigation Drone. And this year, the team has debuted a larger six-inch version of the drone.

Caltech’s big idea: a 150 mph drone ambulance

Haye Kesteloo - Oct. 27th 2017 10:53 am PT

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A self-flying ambulance that will get to the scene of an accident much, much faster than any traditional ambulance would. A drone ambulance, that would be able to get there during those first few critical minutes, right after the accident happened, when lives can still be saved. Sounds crazy? Well, Caltech is working on it in their new drone lab, the Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST) that opened last Tuesday.