Drones Can Steal Your Beer

by Sean Fallon on September 1, 2010

in Misc. Gadgets,Misc. Nerdiness

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From That’s Nerdalicious!: Forget hunting down our nation’s enemies—drones have an even more devastating capability thanks to the Yale Aerial Manipulator.

Of course I’m talking about beer theft.

The drone uses a flexible robotic hand to grasp objects of about a pound in weight. Naturally, there are all kinds of practical applications for something like this as the technology improves—delivering supplie and handling bombs for instance…but what we are really interested in is retrieving a beer from the fridge with a helicopter. Now that would be something.

Check out the following link to see it in action.

(Technology Review via Boing Boing)

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