Why the Military Is Investing in Paper Airplanes
As IEEE Spectrum’s Evan Ackerman reports, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has a new program devoted to creating disposable—and perhaps paper—drones. The DARPA program is called ICARUS (short for Inbound, Controllable, Air-Releasable, Unrecoverable Systems), and it’s aimed at creating what the agency calls "vanishing air vehicles that can make precise deliveries of critical supplies and then vaporize into thin air.”
If paper airplanes don’t exactly seem to fit that bill, think again. Otherlab, a San Francisco-based group that specializes in using unusual materials to create unexpected machines, has received DARPA funding for a drone called APSARA (Aerial Platform Supporting Autonomous Resupply/Actions).
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