Scientists consider “growing” drones!

When you hear someone say cutting edge technology, Silicon Valley may come to mind. This is not the case all the time tho. Some of the most advanced technology comes from military companies and branches of the armed forces.

They have huge support and gengoues budgets to conduct various experiments. Working with highend machinery and a team of scientist the odds are in there favor for coming up with methods that could change technology. Such research projects involving items like drones and how they are build are just some examples of military research.

Two military backed defense companies based out of UK BAE Systems and Cronin Group PLC are currently working on technology that appears to combine advanced chemistry and 3D printing. The partnership plans to develop technology that can grow unmanned aircrafts and “some of their complex electronic systems, conceivably from molecular level upward,” Defense Tech.

Growing UAVs Through chemistry – BEA Systems

The use of 3D printers and the chem baths would save a huge amount of time on the build. The est. average build time for a unmanned aircraft is around 1 year. This new method of manufactoring would decrease the build time for an aircraft, having it build in only a few weeks rather then a few months or years.

Professor Lee Cornin, of Univerity of Glasgow and founding Scientific director at Cronin, said they are developing means “to digitize synthetic and materials chemistry, ” with the goal of assembling complex aircrafts “from the bottom up, or with minimal human assistance.”

As technology advances into the future, manufactoring is evolving. From shrinking of electonics, to buliding products faster with robot assembly. If done right, this research could be a new way of manufactoring as a whole. If not it, was still an interesting research project.