The invention pertains to the development of a unique and small transformable robot that will fit into very small pipes, openings, or packing tubes, thereby enabling complex missions and also which can fly and drive. Other advantages of the system include portability, weight, perch, and stare capabilities. The present invention comprises a compact transformable robot capable of flying and driving designed to furl or fit into small openings, containers, packing tubes, or pipes containing a thrust, a main body, controls, and rotating propellers. The compact transformable robot capable of flying and driving that is designed to furl or fit into small openings, containers, or pipes comprises a ground locomotion, an aerial locomotion, controls, sensors, and a radio.

An available work storage unit stores machinery/equipment on which an unmanned aircraft is to carry out work, and work content which can be carried out on the machinery/equipment. A work content acquisition unit acquires machinery/equipment on which work is to be carried out and work content to be carried out by the unmanned aircraft. A flight plan creation unit determines identification information regarding the machinery/equipment acquired by the work content acquisition unit and a work location for the unmanned aircraft on the basis of the work content, and creates a flight plan for carrying out work at the determined work location.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for using a robotic device to manipulate a manual control of a device. In one aspect, the system includes a robotic device, a first device that is located at a property and that has a manual control, and a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit may include a network interface, a processor, and a storage device that includes instructions to cause the processor to perform operations. The operations may include determining an operating state of the first device, determining the state of the monitoring system, determining whether one or more of the manual controls associated with the first device should be manipulated to alter the operating state of the first device, and transmitting one or more instruction to the robotic device that instruct the robotic device to manipulate one or more manual controls that are associated the first device.

Unmanned vehicles can be terrestrial, aerial, nautical, or multi-mode. Unmanned vehicles may be used to survey a property in response to or in anticipation of a security threat or damage to the property. For example, an unmanned vehicle may analyze information about the property and based on the information provide graphics and information associated with the surveying of the property.

An industrial activity drone comprising an aerial vehicle having at least one rotor, an activity system, and a fastener device for fastening the activity system to the aerial vehicle. The activity system includes a structure, a computer, a work camera that is stationary relative to the aerial vehicle and that provides a view of a work zone, a distribution device having a plurality of compartments, and a turning motor enabling the distribution device to turn relative to the aerial vehicle. The industrial activity drone performs hovering flight so that the work camera faces a work zone and the distribution device is turned so that the compartment that is to be used faces the work zone, thereby performing one or more tasks.

An embodiment of the invention may include a processor-implemented method and computer program product for temperature control. The embodiment may include performing, by at least one unmanned aerial vehicle, at least one local climate control action at a location based on data received from a wearable computing device of at least one individual.

A rotorcraft including a fuselage, one or more motor-driven rotors for vertical flight, and a control system. The motors drive the one or more rotors in either of two directions of rotation to provide for flight in either an upright or an inverted orientation. An orientation sensor is used to control the primary direction of thrust, and operational instructions and gathered information are automatically adapted based on the orientation of the fuselage with respect to gravity. The rotors are configured with blades that invert to conform to the direction of rotation.

An insect elimination system eliminates a flying insect in an airspace. The system comprises: a camera configured to provide image data representative of at least part of the airspace; an unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV, comprising a propeller to propel the UAV through the airspace; and a controller, the controller being connected to the camera to receive the image data, and being connected to the UAV to provide control data to the UAV. The controller is configured to: monitor the image data received from the camera, for an image of an insect; and in case an image of an insect has been found in the image data: derive from the image data a position of the insect in the airspace; and guide the UAV, using the derived position of the insect in the airspace, to hit the insect by the propeller.

A robotic system is disclosed. The robotic system includes a robot. A module is coupled to the robot. An item is disposed within the module. The module includes a release door configured to be selectively opened and closed. When the release door is selectively opened, the item is dropped from the module.

Problem: To provide a control system and a control device for a flying object that autonomously flies the flying object without using a GPS and without storing a flight route.

Means for solving the problem: A control system 2 for a flying object includes at least one marker 6, which corresponds to control information related to the control of the flying object, a reading unit 12 for reading the control information, and a flight information transmitting unit 14 for transmitting flight information to the flying object based on the control information read by the reading unit.