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Imagine landing pads on the top of every house/city. They would look like giant targets used for this copters to land. There could be one within a few meters of
by jtchang 15y ago
Imagine landing pads on the top of every house/city. They would look like giant targets used for this copters to land. There could be one within a few meters of where you currently are.
You place an order on your cell phone. The copters immediately go to work delivering whatever you needed. A SMS would alert you that your goods have arrived. Maybe there would be secure drop zones where a giant chute would automatically route your package into a secure locker. You would open the locker with your cell phone.
Okay I will stop dreaming now.
- Finbarr 15y agoFinally a practical use of QR codes? Each landing pad could have some information embedded via QR to help the copter to distinguish them from one another.
- ngokevin 15y agoUntil I forge your QR code and enjoy your delicious tacos.
- trafficlight 15y agoMaybe GPS coords and a QR code that matches.
- whatusername 15y agoOr until I fill your QR Code target drop-zone with dog-poop in a paper bag.
- skeletonjelly 15y agoNever thought about that. So effectively, QR codes are useful for automation, robots, not humans.
- Finbarr 15y agoSeems to me that QR codes are infinitely more useful to robots than humans. Forget addresses on mail, just QR codes (or the modern day equivalent) on everything that will be handled by robots.
- mhink 15y agoWhy think flat? I remember in an early demo of aerobatic drone maneuvering at Georgia Tech, they were able to get drones to land on Velcro surfaces, even at partially inverted angles. If they could do that precisely enough, you could have drones that never have to land, they just have to latch on to a power station.
- asynchronous13 15y agoI think you're referring to the grasp lab at UPenn, they did stuff with quad rotors landing on Velcro. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM&feature=youtube_gdata_player http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM&feature=youtu... Georgia Tech did more with the larger Yamaha Rmax helicopter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vBhgF5rEIg&feature=youtube_gdata_player http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vBhgF5rEIg&feature=youtu...