SkyCall Flight Robot - individual 'guide'

Finding a place in a large and unfamiliar complex will not be difficult thanks to the presence of SkyCall - a flying robot capable of leading you to the right place. Driven by experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), there are many potential applications that are very useful to humans.

Using a flying robot to sound like a science fiction movie, but at MIT, these high-tech mini-planes are helping students find effective ways on campus like a school maze. "The MIT campus is complex, with lots of buildings and people are straying. We have a lot of freshmen and it's a great opportunity to test it out," said Carlo Ratti, director of the college. says Senseable City, a research and development facility for SkyCall.

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To use the device, students need to download the SkyCall application to their smartphone, then contact the robot. Thanks to GPS user location tracking, the robot quickly locates and flies to help. Next, students just type the number of classrooms into the phone that SkyCall will take them to. Along the way, it also points out important milestones for users to memorize, through the built-in small speaker. The mini helicopter with 4 blades has a traveling speed of 6km / h, especially when it detects that the user is far away, it will stop waiting - like a real tour guide.

Mr Ratti said the robot was flying 1.6 km, but that distance could be increased with the use of larger batteries. SkyCall is expected to bring more applications in the future, as a tour guide for travelers in crowded cities to assist in finding survivors of carpets. graphics. Recording and playback of images on the go (thanks to a CCTV) makes it particularly useful in rescue missions.

"Unmanned aerial vehicles are often used for military service, but this project is aimed at helping people." We are trying to look at the positive aspects of unmanned aerial vehicles - humans control them, not skeptics are controlling people, " explained Rotti. Researchers at the Senseable City Laboratory are looking for more ways SkyCall can be applied in everyday life.