Robotics company CyPhy Works unveiled two small Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs): EASE and PARC.
PARC. Images by CyPhy Works.
Instead of communicating wirelessly drones receives instructions and power through a special thin and light cord.
Helen Greiner, CEO and Founder of CyPhy Works said? To be able to achieve a useful altitude or traverse useful distances, we had to engineer a completely new type of tether for the air domain, we call this a microfilament?
The advantages of this approach are:
1. Longer supply. If the land is a reliable source of energy, the drone can fly for very long.
2. It eliminates common UAV pitfalls such as:
Jamming, intentional noise to disrupt managing;
spoofing, enemy hijacking the UAV to destroy it or use it against our forces;
interception information from UAV and using by the enemy;
enemy detection UAV radio frequency emitters, which gives away our position.
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