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CNET DJI Mavic Air vs. Mavic Pro vs. Spark: Which is right for you? CNET At this point, DJI is only trying to outdo itself. The leader in camera drones announced the Mavic Air on Jan. 23, a $799, £769 or AU$1,299 foldable quadcopter with a 4K-resolution camera that slots nicely into its lineup...

The Trippy, High-Speed World of Drone Racing The New Yorker Temkin calls it a quadcopter. It has four plastic propellers, one at each corner of a cruciform plastic frame. “Quad” is the commonly used name for drones like this. The entire device could fit in a single-serving pizza box. An...

TechCrunch Taking DJI's Mavic Air for a spin TechCrunch Every inch of the Mavic Air is a testament to thoughtful engineering. Before handing off a review unit, a DJI rep takes us through the process of getting up and running. He flips open the smartphone docking arms from the bottom of the...

PCMag KFC Chicken Wings Box Doubles as a Quadcopter PCMag Usually the best thing to do with a KFC box after eating the delicious chicken inside is recycle it, but that's not the case in India for the next couple of days. Order the right thing and the box your chicken comes in can be turned into...

WIRED The Physics of Why Bigger Drones Can Fly Longer WIRED It actually doesn't matter if you have just one rotor (like a helicopter) or four like a quadcopter or even eight like an octocopter. What really matters is that the rotors take stationary air above the vehicle and push this air down...

Hackaday 3D Printing a Better Quadcopter Frame Hackaday Before you smash the “Post Comment” button with the fury of Zeus himself, we're going to go ahead and say it: if you want to build a decent quadcopter, buy a commercial frame. They are usually one of the cheaper parts of the build, they're...

Intel Flew 100 Tiny Drones at Once Inside CES. Yes, Inside Slate Magazine The Shooting Star Mini drones are quadcopters with caged propellers and are extremely small and lightweight. So if they do happen to fall from the sky, the idea is that they won't cause too much damage. Since the drones...

Forbes Drones Invasion Of Pop Culture: Fact or Fiction? Forbes Fact: We're not that far from this being a reality. In February, researchers at Israel's Ben-Gurion University demonstrated how a quadcopter could receive encoded information from a compromised network. In their tests, the drone...

Popular Science China is making 1000-UAV drone swarms now Popular Science Ehang's thousand-strong quadcopter swarm acted as a giant airborne LED screen to display images, like this picture of China. CCTV+. At the close of the Global Fortune Forum in Guangzhou on Dec. 7, the event's hosts set a...

CNET Fat Shark 101 drone kit will have you FPV racing for $250 CNET A racing drone is typically the last place you want to start if you're learning to pilot a quadcopter. Camera drones like the DJI Mavic might be able to fly fast, but they're loaded with sensors and GPS to keep them stable in...

Space.com NASA Shortlists Titan Quadcopter, Comet Sample-Return Concepts for 2020s Mission Space.com The Dragon Titan mission concept, which would send a dual quadcopter to the Saturn moon, is one of two finalists for NASA's next New Frontiers mission to explore the solar system in the...

Hackaday Frankendrones: Toy Quads With A Hobby Grade Boost Hackaday But with the rock bottom prices of toy quadcopters, that line in the sand is having a harder time than ever holding some in the community back. The mashup of toy and hobby grade components is giving rise to the concept of...

Air & Space Magazine Human Beats AI in a Drone Race, But Just Barely Air & Space Magazine The human-versus-robot races have just begun, and so far the humans are ahead—but only by the thinnest of margins. In October, inside a warehouse at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a new...

Gearbrain (blog) Time to register your drone again: Trump reinstates quadcopter registration rules Gearbrain (blog) A law requiring all recreational drone owners to pay $5 to register their name and address with the Federal Aviation Administration has been reinstated by Donald Trump. Part of a...

The Register Japanese quadcopter makes overworked employees clock out The Register A Japanese company is using a quadcopter drone to help its employees know when to pack it in for the day. Taisei, a Tokyo-based office management company, says that its T-Frend bot will start buzzing around...

BBC News Drone collisions 'worse than bird strikes for planes' BBC News Models of two types of drone - the DJI Phantom 3 Standard quadcopter and a fixed-wing Precision Hawk Lancaster Hawkeye III were used. A team of researchers from four universities conducted the research, using drones weighing...

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner UAF hosts first drone races Fairbanks Daily News-Miner FAIRBANKS — An intermittent buzzing of small motors filled the air at the Patty Center Ice Arena Sunday morning instead of the scraping sound of hockey skates and thuds of the puck. Instead of hockey goals an...

FAA Releases Study on Potential Mid-air Drone Collisions Commercial UAV News The research team evaluated the potential impacts of a 2.7-lb. quadcopter and 4 lb. quadcopter; and a 4-lb. and 8-lb. fixed wing drone on a single-aisle commercial transport jet and a business jet. They examined impacts...

CBS News Report: ASSURE Finds Drone Collision Risk Minimal TV Technology The report took a close look at drone collision risks using a DJI Phantom 3 quadcopter and a larger fixed-wing drone. Computer models were used to predict how they would collide with different surfaces of a passenger jet...

Transport Topics Online FAA and ASSURE Announce Results of Air-To-Air Collision Study PR Newswire (press release) Similarly, the team selected a small quadcopter and a light fixed-winged unmanned aircraft as representative of the most-likely threats to manned aircraft. Researchers determined the...