Kanpur: A team of three students from Thakur Institute of Aviation Technology won several accolades in IIT-Kanpur during Techkriti by displaying a robot named Crawlicopter, which is capable of performing plentiful activities like replicating a human being or animal ant trying to challenge Mother Nature, helping Indian army for various surveillance jobs to name a few.
The new innovation in the robot is that it has been given shape of an insect which can crawl and fly. The advantage of this robot being that it can navigate through any surface which is inaccessible with wheels. Wheels requires smooth surface, rail, roads, etc. But Crawlicopter can step over any obstacle without changing its path. The robot is remote controlled.
Narendra Genolia, Dhawal Chitroda and Kedar Mahangare, all three students of first year of the aviation institute who have developed the Crawlicopter, informed that this model is a robot which has legs instead of tyres and it has been gien such a shape that no one can identify weather it's a robot or a bug.
20/03/13 Abhinav Malhotra/Times of India
