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Watch The Omnicopter Drone Play a Game of Catch
Fathers and sons do it, people do it in the park with their dogs, and Baseball players do it professionally, so why not let the robots get in on a fun game of catch? They want in on this human pastime...
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Flying DRAGON Robot Creeps into Your Nightmares on Ducted Wings
One of the things I am often glad of is that snakes can’t fly. I can’t think of anything worse than being chased by a flying snake set on biting me with its gross forked tongue and fangs. This...
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Chinese Spy Drones Camouflaged as Birds
We’ve seen drones that mimic real bird flight, but the ones we’ve seen have been for strictly experimental purposes. However, China is taking flight with the idea and taking it seriously. This drone...
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Guy Flies Jet-powered Hoverboard at More than 100 mph
Somebody call Spider-Man, because I think we just spotted the Green Goblin! What you’re about to see is a jet-powered Flyboard Air being piloted at speeds up to 103.4 mph. This thing looks like a lot...
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This Window Washing Drone Gets The Job Done Safely
Drones can do all kinds of things, and now you can add window washing to the list. After all, washing windows is a dangerous job. Humans can die if they fall while working on a skyscraper. Well, the...
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This Bird-like Drone Has Wings and Legs, and Jumps to Take off
Generally speaking, drones have either vertical takeoff capabilities or they need a runway. However, a South African startup has a better way. Their solution is to add some legs to their drone. The...
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Amazon’s Latest Prime Air Delivery Drone Revealed
Amazon has been working on delivery by drone for a while now. And now the world’s largest online retailer has revealed its latest drone variant. The newly-revealed Amazon Prime Air delivery drone flies...
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1,000W LED Flashlight Mounted to a Drone Looks Like a Real UFO
Daniel Riley of Stratus Productions built a super bright 1,000W LED flashlight. Then, he did what any inventive geek would – he managed to mount it to a powerful Freefly Alta drone. The result is a...
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NEC’s Flying Car Is a Giant Drone for Humans
If you grew up any time in the latter half of the 20th century or later, you’ve been promised that flying cars (and personal jetpacks) would someday take to the skies on a regular basis. While there...
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Toy Football/Plane Hybrid Can Be Thrown Over 100 Yards
This is the Mad Fly Sports Raptor Football, a toy football/plane hybrid that can be thrown over 100 yards. So maybe for once when my brother tells me to go long, he’ll actually mean it. The toy does...
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These Bird-Like Robotic Legs Can Perch And Grasp Things With Its Feet
Inspired by the legs and feet of a peregrine falcon, engineers at Stanford University’s Cutkosky Lab have developed a set of SNAG (“stereotyped nature-inspired aerial grasper”) robotic legs that can...
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Man Builds a Functional Tabletop Flight Simulator Out of LEGO
Because if you can dream it, you can build it (at least with LEGO bricks), Riley of Youtube channel Brick Science wanted to build a tabletop flight simulator entirely out of LEGO. Something that would...
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Ryse Recon Personal eVTOL Takes Flight in Vegas
Appropriately piloted by a man dressed as Elvis, the Ryse Recon electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) craft was recently flown over the old Las Vegas strip. And, because the hexacopter is...
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This Waterproof Quadrocopter Can Fly and Swim
Developed by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the waterproof Mirs-X autonomous drone is capable of both flying AND swimming underwater using its same four rotors for propulsion. It...
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A Giant Flying Robotic Spider: The End Is Nigh
Because our scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they never stopped to think if they should; researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a giant flying robotic spider....
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Designer Updates His Double-Decker Airline Seating Concept
The brainchild of 23-year-old designer Alejandro Núñez Vicente, the Chaise Longue is a double-decker system of airline seating that allows for more passengers to fit in the same amount of space, with...
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Transforming Drone Can Drive, Crawl, Stand, and Fly
Developed by researchers at the California Institute of Technology, the bio-inspired Morphobot M4 (Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot) is a robot capable of rolling, crawling on its wheels, standing on two...
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Researchers Develop Drones That Can Link Together In Midair
Developed by researchers at the University of Tokyo, TRADY (Tilted-Rotor-Equipped Aerial Robot with Autonomous In-Flight Assembly and Disassembly Ability – that’s a stretch of an acronym) are modular...
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Gravity Industries Demonstrates Jet Suit Military Drills
Developed by Gravity Industries, the latest iteration of the company’s Jet Suit is being used to perform military drills. Should Gravity Industries have named their company Anti-Gravity Industries...
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University Team Builds World’s Largest Flying Quadrocopter Drone
A group of researchers at the University of Manchester in England have successfully built and flown the world’s largest quadrocopter, a cardboard behemoth that measures 21 feet across but weighs only...
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