Yale Aerial Manipulator Flies, Grabs Can Of Guinness [The Yale Aerial Manipulator Is A Helicopter-Driven Robot With Manipulator Arm]

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Ladies and gentlemen, presenting Yale University’s contribution to the destruction of society as we know it: the flying remote-controlled beer grabber.

The Yale Aerial Manipulator, as it’s more correctly called, has a top speed of 130 kilometers (roughly sixty-odd miles) per hour, and can carry 2 kilograms (about a pound) of weight, making it a great choice for light bomb disposal or supply drops with the military, delivering small packages or the mail, or even, as you see in this picture, flying into the kitchen to fetch beer for people who think that the distance from the couch to the fridge is some kind of insurmountable gulf.

Alternately this would be great for people who need to fetch food but have found themselves permanently attached to their sofa, or have a pit to hell itself open in the hallway.

Seriously, this is actually quite a technological feat, especially if they can up the weight capacity and add on cameras and suchlike.