The Naviator drone on the other hand is equally adept at flying and swimming underwater. We’ve seen quadcopters and robots that can fly and walk (or roll), and one that Naviator Drone Can Fly and Swim In The Water.
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The drone was developed by a team at Rutgers University and funded by a grant from the Office of Naval Research. The Naviator is a drone capable of flying in the air and maneuvering through water, as well as switching seamlessly from one to the other.
With the assistance of a grant by the Office of Naval Research (USA), engineering students at Rutgers University in New Jersey developed a drone that can fly through the air, submerge underwater, travel through the water, then surface and return to the sky again. It's a remarkable achievement, as most amphibious vehicles cannot return to a previous environment once they've left it.
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The team behind the Naviator will improve on their design with more sensors and capability, including increasing its maximum payload to make the drone more useful in practical situations.
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drones like this one could serve a wide variety of purposes. These amphibious drones could inspect bridges and provide information to assess oil spills. More importantly, they could advance naval warfare capabilities. Prof. Javier Diez explains:
“Mines are probably the biggest problem for the Navy,” said Diez. “They need to map where mines are. Now there are a lot of false positives. This could be a better technology to rapidly investigate these potential threats.”
And in naval warfare, a fleet of drones could be stationed out of sight in an underwater base or on a submarine. The drones could emerge quickly from the depths, get a quick glimpse of enemy ship deployments, and then hide again.
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