SAN DIEGO, May 8 (UPI) -- A small unmanned autonomous helicopter system called the Rotary Bat is being developed by Northrop Grumman and Yamaha Motor Corporation.
Rotary Bat combines a Yamaha airframe with Northrop's autonomous control and intelligence-gathering technologies. It will be for use in urban environments tasks such as search and rescue, power line inspection and forest fire observation, Northrop said in announcing the collaboration.