Northwestern's Phantom Twist spins at 1,500 RPM to evade human vision

Michael Rubenstein's lab used computational design to make a single-propeller aircraft fade into its background, though it remains confined to controlled flights.

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Phantom Twist shows computational design moving beyond software and into the physical arrangement of machines. Its limits also separate a strong lab result from an autonomous, usable aircraft.

Northwestern's Phantom Twist spins at 1,500 RPM to evade human vision — Michael Rubenstein's lab used computational design to make a single-propeller aircraft fade into its background, though it remains confined to controlled flights.

Michael Rubenstein, Jingxian Wang and Chen Yu demonstrated a drone on July 16th that turns its entire body into motion blur, using rapid rotation and carefully spaced components to become harder for people to see.…

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