A robotic hand attached to a small helicopter can successfully and autonomously grip objects while the helicopter is hovering(link to video there too) ...
Article: Paul E.I. Pounds and Aaron M. Dollar, Hovering Stability of Helicopters with Elastic Constraints, proceedings of the 2010 ASME Dynamics Systems and Control Conference (DSCC 2010).
Yale Aerial Manipulator: Flying robot hands are creepy - and by creepy, I mean cool
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