The idea of drones capturing other drones with a net is nothing new. Researchers at the Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab at Stanford University have come up with a clever approach to grab aerial targets with a gripper. It has a lightweight design 23g and closes within 12ms to make the capture.
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Aerial Grasping and the Velocity Sufficiency Region
As this video shows, a 550g drone can capture a 85g target at velocities between 1m/s to 2.7 m/s.
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