Robotics researcher Mirko Kovac will be heading the new ’NEST Aerial Robotics Hub’ at Empa in Dübendorf
The new "NEST Aerial Robotics Hub" of Empa and Imperial College London is all about autonomous, soft-material drones. The aim of the new cooperation is to integrate functional materials into robot technology. As permanent residents, the flying robots will make building maintenance at NEST both easier and more efficient. "The city of the future will be a complex ecosystem for humans and robots," says Mirko Kovac. The robotics researcher will be heading the new "NEST Aerial Robotics Hub" at Empa in Dübendorf. As a cooperation between Empa's materials scientists and robotics experts at Imperial College London, the new center will be dedicated to the development and optimization of a new generation of autonomous soft-material drones. The robots will use the NEST research building of Empa and Eawag as their playing field where they will roam independently as permanent residents, e.g. perform building maintenance and repair tasks.
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