Mirko Kovac, pictured here with a different type of drone, is head of Empa’s Materials and Technology Center of Robotics and Director of the Aerial Robotics Laboratory at Imperial College London. Image: Imperial College London
Mirko Kovac, pictured here with a different type of drone, is head of Empa's Materials and Technology Center of Robotics and Director of the Aerial Robotics Laboratory at Imperial College London. Image: Imperial College London - Mirko Kovac has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant from Horizon Europe, the EU's key funding program for research and innovation. Kovac, a researcher at both Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, and Imperial College London, is designing metamorphic drones for use in complex environments like the arctic. ERC Consolidator Grants are awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) to researchers with a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal and provide funding of two million Euro for a period of five years. Mirko Kovac is designing metamorphic drones for use in complex environments at Empa's Materials and Technology Center of Robotics and the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London. His project, ProteusDrone, will establish a new field of soft drones that can change their body shape, similar to the Greek shape-shifting sea god, Proteus. It could allow drones to be used in challenging (and changing) environments such as the arctic to study climate change.
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