At the Delft Centre of Robotics scientists
work with flying and walking swarm robots.
These robots are designed to carry out tasks in all kinds of different environments,
without the help of people.
One of the robots is the Zebro, a robust machine that will keep going, no matter what.
This is the Zebro, it's the micro Zebro,
it’s the smallest robot that we have.
As you can see it has six legs, you could wonder why don’t we have wheels or tracks.
Well the reason for that this is unstoppable. It will climb over everything.
This one for example has a temperature sensor,
but it can also have a sensor to smell drugs, smell explosives, smell fresh fruit.
And what we want to do with
these robots is, we want to build a swarm with them.
And this swarm will cover a large area so you will have a large sensor network
walking around that will find anything.
At the moment drones are really hot and everyday we see new applications.
This DelFly is a beautiful example because it is the lightest drone in the world
that can completely by itself fly around, see obstacles, avoid obstacles and keep it’s height.
And we hope that this technology will find its way to society in two ways.
And one way is that drones, that for example Amazon makes, also become safe.
And the second way is that we see 10s or perhaps 100s of these small drones
helping in for example search and rescue scenarios
and that they work together with walking robots.
