An autonomous drone with wheels can roll alongside the bottom, solely flying when wanted to clear obstacles, which helps its battery final seven occasions longer, in keeping with its builders.
Rolling robots are environment friendly and might journey lengthy distances, however can not traverse large obstacles, whereas flying drones can get previous massive obstructions, however have restricted vary. Now, Ruibin Zhang and his colleagues at Zhejiang College in Hangzhou, China, have tried to mix the advantages of each sorts…