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Flybox By Skybotik
Flybox is a very thin six blade helicopter made by Skybotix, a spinoff from the Autonomous Systems Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. This flying robot comes with ROS installed, uses an ARM 32 bit controller and can last for up to 30 minutes at at time. Available options include a USB camera, [...]
Helicopter Drone Fits In Your Trunk
Yet another tool for law enforcement similar to Shadowhawk, but without the weapons or thermal camera. A small helicopter drone named Inceptor from a company called Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing. This drone has a weight of 3.5 lbs and can fly for up to 24 minutes at a time at speeds of up to [...]
Robot Helicopter
A new robot helicopter by Vanguard Defense called Shadowhawk has been released. Shadowhawk has a range of 35 miles and can fly up to 70 miles an hour. It can come equipped with a turbine or piston engine. All models come with a Sony FCB EX-980 CCDTV camera as well as a FLIR Photon UTAM-32 [...]
Amazing Spycopter
From Aeryon Labs in Canada comes an amazing new quadrotor called Scout. Scout weighs only around 1 kilogram and while carried disassembled, it quickly snaps together. Scout has a range of 3 kilometers, can travel up to 50 kilometers an hour and withstand 80 kilometer an hour gusts of wind. Pre planned flight paths can [...]
Robotic Hummingbird
AeroVironment, makers of many vehicles such as Helios and Global Observer, has now created the world’s first robotic hummingbird for DARPA. AeroEnvironment called the robot a Nano Air Vehicle during development and is now calling it a Nano Hummingbird. The robot has the following specs: The hand-made prototype aircraft has a wingspan of 16 centimeters [...]