Paraswift climbs buildings, jumps, lives to inform the story (video)

Appears like not even our parachuting jobs are safe from the robot onslaught. Disney Research and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have joined forces to bring the arena Paraswift, a plucky little robot with a penchant for scaling buildings and a thirst for thrills. The team recently posted some video of the ‘bot, that could climb a wall, deploy a parachute after which coast relatively safely to the bottom. Paraswift is greater than only a mechanical thrill-seeker, however — the machine has a built-in camera that may be used to record footage to be used in 3D models. Death-defying video after the break.

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