The (distant) future of drones?

[rhberg]

The cover story in this week's issue of Nature magazine describes the development of insect-sized (a few centimeters) flying robots (I have attached a review of the work). Developed at Harvard, they fly using four flapping wings, and are powered by solar cells (albeit requiring high light intensity). This is proof of concept and yet to be developed is a flight control system, etc. Nevertheless, this points to future, radically different drone designs.

 

[Mossiback]

The military is probably already using this technology for recon missions.

 

[The Editor]

The military is probably already using this technology for recon missions.

Only in science fiction films.

They do however use black hornets at $40,000 each.

Black Hornet Nano - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Huckleberry]

I’ve said for years that one day, the old saying, “I’d like to be a fly one the wall,” is going to come true.

 

[Olav van Gerven]

I’ve said for years that one day, the old saying, “I’d like to be a fly one the wall,” is going to come true.

You better not be the fly if my wife is near. Then you would probably be the remains of a fly at the wall

 

[redserv]

You better not be the fly if my wife is near. Then you would probably be the remains of a fly at the wall

Lol

 

[ddoss]

Check out the Flir Black Hornet.

Black Hornet® PRS Airborne Personal Reconnaissance System (PRS) | Teledyne FLIR

The Black Hornet PRS equips the non-specialist dismounted soldier with immediate covert situational awareness (SA). Game-changing EO and IR technology bridges the gap between aerial and ground-based sensors, with the same SA as a larger UAV and threat location capabilities of UGVs. Extremely...

www.flir.com

 

[hippa]

Reality: distant future seems to be something like DJI Phantom 4 pro v2.0 but folding. Real 4K/60 folding Mavic (Air) size drone with decent night fotos.

Take my 1800 € with 2 batteries immediately !

Lack of competition? DJI could easily do it, but why to bother.