A research lab in Iran is hard at work building a new robotic lifeguard that could respond instantly to passengers and crew who fall from ships by flying to their rescue and dropping a life preserver to them from the sky…
The robot, known as Pars, is being developed by Tehran-based RTS Labs, and the design is pretty ingenious. The ship-based Pars is a simple quadcopter that can be alerted when someone falls overboard, or is pushed overboard, or is forced to walk the plank. Once it’s launched, Pars scans the area around the boat with a thermal sensor, just like a Predator would. Instead of hunting the person in the water for sport, though, Pars drops a life preserver to keep them afloat until crew members can mount a proper rescue.
via Geekosystem
