00:02this is iron cub the robot and the italian institute of technology have strapped a jet
00:08pack to him and now it's learning to fly but why here's daniele pucci one of the researchers working
00:14on the project to explain yeah the ultimate goal is basically to have a disaster response technology
00:20that can help operators to act remotely where basically it's difficult to walk and to arrive
00:27to get to the place so you would like something that flies avoids debris and obstacles lands makes
00:35inspections looks for survivors the jetpack was developed and produced by gravity industries
00:41however the institute says they have had to rework the whole thing to work with their robot
00:45in particular working around the 1400 degree exhaust coming out the back they are now working on altering
00:51the robot to work better specifically with the jetpack we have a two-step two-step strategy so one
00:57short term is really to have a stable a stable hovering and the landing of the robot and then
01:05the second step it would be to consider aerodynamics but this would take longer and most likely to get
01:11horizontal flight this is all in the hopes that one day if you're in trouble in a difficult to reach
01:16spot
01:16this might be your first responder
