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GoPro Announces Updates On Karma Drone
As we all know, the GoPro Karma was recalled last fall due to issues with it’s reliability and it’s sometimes falling out of the sky. GoPro has recently announced that the issue has been resolved. The issue had to do with the battery’s placement causing the drone to instantly shut down and drop like a rock from the sky. Following the struggle of the public relations nightmare thi...
Robot Drone Man
Ilhan Bae is a researcher and futurist who has done something pretty amazing. He has put Kubi telepresence robot on top of a DJI S1000 drone. The result is a robotic being that can move its arms, interact with people and fly from place to place. Bae says that “it may look impractical to install heavy robot parts on a light drone, but the benefits of telepresence via a flying drone overwhelm the re...
Home Security With Drones
The Sunflower Home Awareness System promises a new approach to home security. “The system consists of these two parts,” founder Alex Pachikov said. “There are really advanced sensors that you place around your property. These can detect motion, vibration and sound. In the event that you want to take a closer look at something, you can then deploy a drone to investigate what’s happening and send ba...
Intel Breaks World Record With 500 Drones
Yesterday we published an article about how Walt Disney World is using drones as “digital fireworks” in the sky. Today we have a great follow up to that article with this news about Intel using 500 drones, piloted by one person, to break a world record and prove that drones can make a beautiful spectacle in the air. Intel announced their second branded drone, the Intel Shooting Star, b...
Drones to Replace Fireworks at Disney
Disney has filed patents as far back as 2014 to use drones for different types of entertainment. One of the biggest use cases is to use up to 500 drones, flying in a preset pattern, to create three dimensional images in the sky. Disney has been testing this at different parks and the results are amazing! Check out the article and video in the link below to see what it looks like to have 500 drones...
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Blade 200 QX
Introduction The Blade 200 QX has been around since early 2014, which in quadcopter time, is a reall...
