SUPERb: Chinese researchers just designed and built a flying robot that looks like a precursor to Matrix's laser-focused Sentinels

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To demonstrate its capabilities, the research team tested SUPER against a commercial drone, theDJI Mavic 3.

While theDJImodel avoided larger obstacles, it struggled to detect thin wires of smaller diameters.