3D Robotics Comment by Alan Sanchez on March 15, 2013 at 1:15pm

Wow! really cool stuff

Comment by Alexsey Novik on March 15, 2013 at 1:31pm

o O

Comment by Richard Boyhan on March 15, 2013 at 2:17pm

Very Neat. Maybe Randy can use it to pickup his rover off the Japanese volcano.

3D Robotics Comment by Joshua Ott on March 15, 2013 at 3:09pm

Finally the GRASP lab is living up to their name.

Comment by Carl La France on March 15, 2013 at 6:21pm

Thumbs up to Randy! who has to deal with 10K+ winds on a sloping  volcano to conduct his experiments!  In the controlled environment of the lab the team of researchers make it look easy( I know a LOT went into it ) Very impressive snatch and  grab with a trigger on contact locking mechanism. can the Quad put the object back on the pedestal just as fast?  Are we looking at the Future? Down the road when more and more Quads start operating commercially will it be common place for Quads to fly in and pickup and release packages all autonomously.? What I found impressive in Randy's video his hex was  if scaled would be the equivalent of picking up a freight train and he had a strong vertical  component to keep it in the air when the rover released the hex jumped up and smoothed out  .I keep seeing it over and over,  From the Lab to the Little guy People here  on DIY Drones actually"DO STUFF"! you Guys Have a Great Day!  

Comment by Flying Monkey on March 15, 2013 at 6:47pm

That is awesome!  A bit frightening for the prey though ;)

Comment by Noth666 on March 16, 2013 at 8:04am

Cool stuff! I wonder how well it would respond to an arbitrary approach speed vs a known one, as it appears to me that unless the claw is contact actuated and very fast it might well happen that the ball bounces out on contact. 

On a less serious note, immagine how useful this would be for a golf court company! A few of these to clean up the greens :) = profit. 

Comment by Philipp P. on March 16, 2013 at 8:56am

hey, that's cool.
An excellent use would be throwing back garbage.

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