quadrotors
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Parrot Bebop Drone Review: Looks Aren’t Everything
You’ve graduated from your cheap beginner drone, and you want to try something new. Something that can shoot beautiful video from the sky — but doesn’t cost $1,000+ like a camera-equipped DJI Phantom. You spot the $US500 Parrot Bebop Drone, and pull the trigger. It’s kind of fun, you think, between strings of obscenities.
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This Sticky Quadrotor Can Literally Be A Fly On The Wall
In the not too distant future the world is going to be abuzz with quadrotors flying about making deliveries, monitoring traffic and spying on everyone: a skill this gecko-like craft is particularly adept at. Thanks to a special dry adhesive it’s able to stick and unstick from surfaces, letting it land and perch almost anywhere.
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Tacocopter Basics
The Tacocopters are coming. Sure, the original pitch was a clever troll aimed at credulous and impatient fast-food junkies. But the numbers don’t lie — a typical taco weighs less than 500 grams, and aircraft that can autonomously fly a kilo or two of payload to your doorstep are already available for around a thousand…
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This Quadrotor Flying Machine Gun Will Kick Serious Arse Some Day
The FPS Russia people made this video showing a “prototype” quadrotor equipped with a machine gun. Yes, a remote-controlled flying machine gun. They take it for a spin and shoot some targets, as they usually do.