Clingy Drones Vice News’ Motherboard reports that a new type of drone has successfully been designed by researchers at the Createk Design Lab at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec that can autonomously alight on, and cling to, vertical surfaces, both hard and soft. Besides obvious spy applications that the drone was not specifically designed for, the researchers suggest that the UAV can be used to survey areas damaged by earthquakes, or to inspect tall structures that are difficult to get to.   Zealandia Recently, a team of eleven geologists strongly recommended that the sunken land mass between Australia and … Continue reading →