![Engineering Drone used to clean Eddie](/uofsc/images/post_images/2018/post_12_dust_up_engr_cleaning_eddie_006.jpg)
A major dustup
December 11, 2018, Chris Horn
Eddie, a 40-foot-tall statue in Columbia's EdVenture children's museum, has been hard to keep clean. But a team of mechanical engineering students at the University of South Carolina have designed, built and tested a robotic drone that can whisk away the dust bunnies from Eddie's massive body.