Looks like they hovered for 1000 seconds. It was previously stress limited such that the joints would break after just a few seconds. I think they might still be tethered for a power source, I haven’t seen any of these micro flapping bots include a battery yet, and they didn’t mention that they did.
Congrats to salt! I hope he’ll make a longer vid about what went into it.
Isn’t training till failure a really bad plan? It’ll cause damage that’s really hard to heal from.
The original claims of energy efficiency came from mixing up the energy usage of their much smaller model with their big model I think.
Tesla I’m sure will do fine. I’m not sure about the others who don’t have an in at the white house.
Yeah, great video. Deflecting it seems surprisingly doable if the will is there.