Tag: Drone

As sophisticated as drones are, they can get taken out of the sky in some very low-tech ways, as this short video from a soccer match in Argentina shows. In the video, a fan brings down…

Astronauts get all the cool robot toys, and the folks on board the International Space Station have a new robotic companion now. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released the first images shot by the…

Can you dry your wet clothes by using a drone? The Beyond the Press channel wanted to find out, so in this video they demonstrate how to speed up the drying process of some of their…

Check out this short video that Arize Nwosu posted of a camera drone heading towards the stage at a music festival, then taking a nosedive. How the drone crashed is what is fun and interesting here.…

Check out this video from amazingdiyprojects as he takes his homemade multi-rotor copter out for its first manned test flights. Yes, it looks like a death trap. He is just sitting there surrounded by dozens of…

Want to fly a drone, but don’t want to break the bank? Take your to the skies with the JETJAT ULTRA, a tiny camera drone which sells for only $59.99 (USD). The palm-sized JETJAT ULTRA features…

Racing drones are all the rage right now, but they’re notorious for being hard to control, especially for beginners. Now there’s a drone that will help you learn the art of drone racing. The Aerix Black…

Love or hate drones, I think we can all agree that watching them get zapped with over a million volts sounds like it would be pretty entertaining. It is. YouTube science geek Tom Scott took a…

You might think crash test dummies were mostly used for testing the safety of cars, airplanes, motorcycles and other vehicles. However, they’re often used in the testing of other consumer products to see what impact they…

Check out this crazy hoverbike test footage from Russia. This guy has only one thought: Don’t move my legs. Don’t move my legs. I love my legs. Please don’t let me lose my legs. What you’re…

Power lines tend to collect trash when the wind blows. Plastic bags and other assorted trash stuck in the lines can be dangerous. Apparently, in Xiangyang, China, they now send drones up to sort out the…

Emulating a bat’s complex flight patterns has been a hard task for scientists, but now they are getting somewhere. With over 40 joints in their wings, bats offer a challenge. By simplifying that wing structure into…

I’ve never visited England, but if what I see on movies and TV is true, it rains there all the time. That means the English have to cart around an umbrella much of the time or…

Don’t just fly a drone, build your own flying machine with this fun kit from FlexBot. With the Flexbot Hexacopter Kit, you’ll get everything you need to build your own six-bladed drone. The Flexbot uses open-source…

If you’ve ever flown a drone, you know how easy it can be to crash and destroy its blades or do other damage. The Droneball aims to do away with this problem, as it’s essentially a…

I sat here and watch this video of this gigantic drone pulling a snowboarder around and wanted to call BS right way. The problem is that I am half convinced this is legit and they actually…