The design of small UAVs usually falls into one of two categories: the cruciform quadcopter (with extra arms added as necessary) and the fixed-wing glider (such as early iterations of Google’s ...

Climbing The Mountain Of Quadcopter Design. 5 Comments . by: Mike Szczys. April 24, 2012. Title: Copy. Short Link: Copy. What a sweet thing it is to see the first outdoor flight of a quadcopter.

Mobile Recon Systems announced a new Kickstarter campaign starting July 10 for the KittyHawk. It's a large heavy-lift quadcopter that carries three cameras or up to 9 lb (4.3 kg) of payload.

The QuadRKT team hopes that their unique design will revolutionize the quadcopter racing industry. If the QuadRKT can manage to live up to its expectations, it might just do that.

Here, a NASA intern works with the quadcopter vehicle and ArduPilot Mega 2.5 hardware. First, they needed to provide undergraduate engineers, many of whom had little control design or programming ...

Building a Quadcopter with the HoverGame Kit Aug. 14, 2019 Putting together the HoverGames quadcopter is just the beginning—even a five-year-old can help you build it.

The Phantom 3 quadcopter from DJI lists for about $800, but can be found online for just under $500. It weighs almost 3 lb, can climb at about 16.5 fps and descend at 10 fps, and has a top speed ...

Sony has showed off its new Airpeak drone at CES 2021, revealing the design of the upcoming product and showing off its integration with Sony Alpha mirrorless cameras.

The teaser mirrors a previous Project Wing hype video, only without the shots of the fixed-wing aircraft that Google recently scrapped in favor of a more traditional (Amazon-like) quadcopter drone.

On show at CES this week, Parrot's Disco drone does away with the popular quadcopter design in favor of a speedy wing-shaped model that can simply be tossed in the air to take flight.