With acrobatic leaps, Hainan gibbons can cross a great gully carved by a 2014 landslide in the forest on China’s Hainan Island. But when a palm frond caught by the vaulting apes to steady their ...

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Six people were crossing the rope attraction when it collapsed under the strain A GROUP of tourists who were spotted jumping on a rope bridge were left clinging for safety just moments later after the ...

Are unmanned aerial vehicles the future of flimsy rope bridges spun out over deep and terrifying chasms? I am happy to report that the answer is “probably.” Quartz reports that researchers from the ...

Sure, drones get a bad rap these days, what with their disturbing of monk naps and being banned from getting too close to the pope. But despite their terrorization of bears and general annoyance, ...

As we learned earlier this year, researchers at ETH Zürich's institute for Dynamic Systems and Control are looking at ways in which flying construction robots can be programmed to autonomously build ...

As far as team-building exercises go, this one's pretty special - a thousand villagers join forces in a 500-year-old annual tradition to make a precarious rope bridge which will serve as a vital link ...

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Swiss researchers have released footage of two drones constructing a 7-meter (23 feet) rope bridge strong enough to support the weight of a human. The construction of the bridge was conducted without ...

One of the big selling points of drones is that they can get to areas that aren't exactly safe or accessible by humans. That's why watching quadrocopters assembling a rope bridge that's sturdy enough ...

Swiss researchers have released footage of two drones constructing a 7-meter-long (23-foot-long) rope bridge strong enough to support the weight of a human. The construction of the bridge was ...