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IIIT Hyderabad Researchers Unveil Working Prototype Of Flexible Drone That Changes Its Size To Fit The Size Of Package by IANS - Apr 6, 2021 08:52 AM A drone (representative image) (Source: @IndusSpirit/Twitter) Researchers at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Hyderabad have unveiled a working prototype of a flexible drone that changes its shape to fit the size of the package to be lifted. Suraj Bonagiri, a researcher from the Robotics Research Centre in his research on the mechanism behind a reconfigurable quadcopter, highlighted limitations of existing delivery drones and proposed a novel design. Current design of such drones focuses only on the weight of parcels to be lifted ignoring their size. Packages however come in various sizes and is an important parameter to be factored in, said the 24-year-old robotics researcher. ....