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To put this in perspective, it supports up to 3kg in the demonstration. That's a fraction of what I can support with one finger.

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If they made it more stable, you could use it to move your nitroglycerin around, in 3kg batches

Ok, but it's cargo AND vacuum cleaner. Can your finger do that?

And can your finger AI? Doubt it.

More like a downward pointing leaf blower, driving the dirt from high traffic areas into every corner of the house.

My apartment pays for people to come by and blow dirt around every so often, so maybe this could let delivery people pick up extra cash on the side!

Now you got me curious - how many kg can you support with a single finger, and what's your exercise regime?

Professional climbers are known for being able to hang off of two fingers.

It usually takes years of training to be able to do this.

It’s one thing to be able to hang off a finger hooked over a tiny ledge, it’s much easier to hook a handle and lift a load vertically. Most adult humans could lift 10kg witha couple of fingers.

Except for a fair comparison with this particular drone, you need a figure for how much you can carry on top of your finger, pointing upwards, while keeping it balanced.

No I don't, because I don't need to carry things like that. I need to compare this drone with a sturdy cardboard box that I can carry things in.

If there's a handle you can hook into, anyone can carry ~20kg with a single finger (index or middle finger). For me, the limiting factor would be the handle biting into my finger too hard, but I can likely go up to 40kgs.

20kg is about the weight of a bag of water softener salt. No way am I carrying that from one finger for more than about 10 feet exactly because of the limiting factor you mention.

I deadlift about 60kg with two fingers (middle), I can easily hang on two fingers (one of each hand), so about 37kg per finger. Some people can do one finger pullups

As for the regime: just lift heavy shit every day and climb one/twice a week

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