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The quadcopters are not terribly efficient, they spending too much energy hovering. I think a fixed-wing drone of the similar form factor is the way to go, wou
by Const-me 4y ago
The quadcopters are not terribly efficient, they spending too much energy hovering.
I think a fixed-wing drone of the similar form factor is the way to go, would fly many times longer. However, they will fly much faster and can’t stop. To be able to reliably evade obstacles and other drones, they gonna need much better sensors, also more on-board GFlops of compute power to handle data from these sensors.
Fortunately, we still have amazing rate of technical progress so far in both cameras and mobile SoCs, driven by smartphones. For this reason, I think really amazing ones might arrive 5-10 years in the future.