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Awesome Drones

At the End of the Cul-de-Sac

At the End of the Cul-de-Sac

(PG-13 Language) Paul Trillo teamed up with Aerobo to create this dark and dizzying short film in which a group of neighbors debate how to handle an unstable man who appears in their cul-de-sac. Incredibly, the entire film was shot in a single take using a drone.

Saur

Saur

Fly among the dinosaurs in Robert McIntosh’s latest short film, which takes us on a rapid tour of the Natural History Museum of Utah, courtesy of a 2″ micro drone and a GoPro Hero 6 camera, carefully piloted through the bones of Earth’s prehistoric residents.

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Star Wars Propel Drone

Star Wars Propel Drone

Live out your rebel fighter dreams with this X-Wing Fighter drone — it zips around at 35 miles per hour, pulls stunts with the press of a button, plays movie sound effects, and even fires safe infrared lasers to battle opponents.

The Foldable Drone

The Foldable Drone

The University of Zurich’s Robotics and Perception Group have developed a drone that can autonomously change size to fit through tight openings. The result is a stable quadrotor which can more reliably access disaster sites, improving search and rescue operations.

Low Earth Orbit

Low Earth Orbit

Hong Kong video production company Visual Suspect created this awesome time-lapse footage by sending a drone into circular flight trajectories around Folegandros Island, Greece, resulting in a unique and awe-inspiring perspective on the world below.

Astro Elroy Passenger Drone

Astro Elroy Passenger Drone

Astro’s Elroy is a single-passenger electric drone. All you need to do is to enter your destination and it will do the rest, though it also has on-board controls for manual override. It can carry up to 265lb, go up to 44 mph and lasts 25 min per charge.

The Omnicopter

The Omnicopter

Engineers from ETH Zurich developed this innovative cube-shaped drone which can generate force in any direction, allowing it to more easily change directions, and fly with greater agility than traditional UAVs which have all of their fans oriented at the same angle.

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Hoversurf Hoverbike S3

Hoversurf Hoverbike S3

Hoversurf is now taking pre-orders for its Hoverbike S3. The flying motorbike has a carbon fiber body, three-bladed carbon fiber propellers, and a battery that lasts up to 25min in pilot mode. It goes up to 16ft high and has a maximum speed of 60mph.

Ural Air Motorcycle

Ural Air Motorcycle

Ural’s limited edition Air motorcycle comes with a DJI Spark drone, which is housed in a 3D printed bin on the nose of the sidecar. The sidecar also has also a fixed mount for the drone’s remote control. The motorcycle is limited to 40 units.

Formula Drift x GoPro HERO7

Formula Drift x GoPro HERO7

This smoke-filled Formula Drift video is some of the most spectacular driving footage we’ve ever seen. Watch as drone flying expert Johnny FPV shows off a little bit of what the Hypersmooth image stabilization can do in GoPro’s new HERO7 Black camera.

Bladeless Drone

Bladeless Drone

Engineer Mark Rober tipped us off to this impressive build by high school senior Stefano Rivellini. His flying machine uses four 90mm ducted fans concealed inside of a bent carbon fiber tubes. The result is a drone without the risk of injury from spinning fan blades.

Drone vs. Airplane Wing

Drone vs. Airplane Wing

If you have any doubts that flying drone near aircraft was a bad idea, watch this footage from the University of Dayton Research Institute, who recently conducted a test to see just how much damage a drone could do to an airplane wing at even a relatively slow flight speed.

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DIY Flying Car

DIY Flying Car

Fed up with the terrible traffic in the Philippines capital of Manila, inventor Kyxz Mendoza decided to build himself a vehicle that he hopes to fly OVER the jams. His 16-rotor carbon fiber-wrapped metal drone has seating for one, and flies for up to 15 minutes on a 2.5 hour charge.

Dog vs Drone

Dog vs Drone

Brighten your day with this super-short clip of a determined dog’s attempt to grab hold of a DJI Mavic Air quadcopter just as it attempts to lift off. Fortunately, he didn’t get caught up in the blades, or that could have been a far less happy outcome.

Dragon Drone

Dragon Drone
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Developed by students from the University of Tokyo, the DRAGON is a snake-like drone with jointed modules. This allows it to change its shape in mid-air, passing through small passages and even theoretically interacting with or manipulating objects.

TIME Drone Cover

TIME Drone Cover

TIME Magazine’s latest issue features a special report on the prevalence of drones. But instead of featuring a drone on their cover, they made the cover out of drones. 958 drones flew up to over 300ft to make the publication’s iconic red border and logo. More here.

Skydio R1 Autonomous Camera Drone

Skydio R1 Autonomous Camera Drone

The Skydio R1 is equipped with 13 cameras that it uses to make a 3D map of its surroundings in real-time, allowing it to avoid obstacles while automatically following you. It can even follow cars. It has follow, side, orbit and lead flight modes.

Drone World Record

Drone World Record

During a recent event over the City Wall of Xi’an, China, a team of engineers from EHang launched a whopping 1,374 illuminated quadcopters, transforming the night sky into a dynamic and colorful airborne light show. We wonder if any of them bumped propellers.

Drone vs. Go-Karts

Drone vs. Go-Karts

High speed drone flyer jab1a convinced the guys at Exeter, UK track RaceWorld Karting to let him fly his quadcopter around and chase down their staff as they raced on their indoor track. The resulting footage is exhilarating and puts you right in the middle of the action.

Pyeongchang Olympics Drone Display

Pyeongchang Olympics Drone Display

To kick off the 2018 Winter Olympics, Intel launched 1218 drones, which formed the image of an athlete, then the olympic rings, as athletes mirrored the image below. The drone layer was pre-recorded for the live broadcast due to logistical issues, but it was still breathtaking.

LED-Equipped Drone Photography

LED-Equipped Drone Photography

Rctestflight shows off some eyepopping desert aerial photography, the most impressive of which are the nighttime shots starting at 1:09. They used multiple drones – one to capture the imagery and another to provide illumination using a powerful 1kW LED light source.

Magnetic Modular Drones

Magnetic Modular Drones

Engineers at UPenn’s ModLab developed a network of drones which are capable of joining together mid-flight to form meta-drones to perform tasks together. The prototypes appear to use static magnets, but electromagnets could allow them to detach easily.

DJI Mavic Air

DJI Mavic Air

DJI’s lightweight, foldable drone shoots smooth 4K video with its 3-axis gimbal, as well as 120fps/1080p slow-motion, 32MP spherical panoramas, and HDR stills. It offers intuitive controls, obstacle avoidance, and easy cinematic flight paths. Sample footage here.

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