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Australian-Made UAV Uses 3D-Printed Parts

Gizmodo AU

Unmanned reconnaissance is all the rage these days, if you happen to be paranoid ex-military or on the extreme side of Facebook stalking. Regardless of the source of your psychosis, you’d probably get your hardware from Cyber Technology, a Western Australia-based company that manufacturers the cyberQuad MINI UAV shown above.


December 18, 2009
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Avatar-Chic CyberQuad UAV Trades Rotors For Fans

Cyber Technologies’ CyberQuad UAV, implementing four silent, ducted fans in lieu of traditional rotor blades, has already been used to survey damaged oil rigs. Someday it will be used to transport troops in campaigns to exploit interplanetary resources.