Drone wars: new UAV interceptor billed as net-firing solution to rogue flying
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#10DJ0)
New capture and removal system could help in disarming unmanned aerial vehicles carrying explosive payload, without causing them to crash
What happens when you have a drone flying where it shouldn't? You send a drone to capture a drone for a bit of mid-air "robotic falconry", of course.
Michigan Technological University's latest drone-catcher system deploys an octacopter armed with a gun that fires out a net to entrap and carry off rogue unmanned aerial vehicles flying where they shouldn't be.
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