They're clearly aiming at a non-hobby market... large companies and governments will throw away large sums of money on "ready to go" solutions... and will generally pay ridiculous prices if it comes with a "it works" guarantee. The other side is research. Why put in a grant proposal requesting $500 to build your own drown and operate it, when you can ask for $20,000 for a "commercial drone"... it's not your money... you're just having to convince someone else to give you the money (and they often want to know where the project risks are... a non-flying drone is one of them).
Look at Nao robots... I have 4... they cost AUD$17,000 each to land in the country... they sell for EUR$12,000. There's no more than EUR$2000 worth of hardware. Add twice that for recouping dev costs and running the company.. call it EUR$6000 base price... it's not at retail yet, so academia is clearly supporting the ongoing effort to get it to market, by paying through the nose. Mind you, it wasn't my money, but my employers, and to them, $50K is a drop in the ocean if it's going to have a measurable impact on teaching and research (which its easy to show it will... cool robots motivate students and excite grant managers)!
This comes down to : You pay your IGNORANCE. It is the same in the computer world where people pay thousands of dollars for a really mid-range desktop PC. Why ? Simply because people pay their ignorance.
This is true for every thing : from the mechanics of your car to these UAV sold at 20k or more.
DIY drone, Self built PCs, etc are the proof that with taking some time to get knowledge, you actually EARN money.
Let the ignorant pay such prices, just get knowledge, read, learn, read, learn and save money.
Ka-ching. I just figured out the FAA "No Commercial" loophole. Here's how it works.
You run a business that sells mapping drones... Pre-configured.
So a customer comes in, you sit down with him and he shows you want he wants mapped. You program the drone and sell it to him, pre-configured and ready to map. He only has to do one thing. Get away from it, and hit "auto". You could even have a training session out back.
Customer takes drone home and it maps what he wants. He takes out the sim card and he's done.
Customer then goes to a second company that "Refurbs" used drones. This company cleans and verifies the drone, then sells it back to company #1 for re-sale.
You never fly the drone for commercial purposes. The customer gets what he wants out of it over his private property while he owns it.
Finally you buy it back for less than you sold it and there is your profit.
le week-end passe j ais eu une démonstration de l ensemble c est vraiment bien fait je confirme autonomie complète.
c est vrai c est cher mais il faut bien comprendre tous ce que cela comprend
mais vraiment impression positive vu la démo
merci encore au concepteur pour la démonstration et bonne chance
I wonder if they might land some sort of European drone contract? Although I'm not a big fan of the political consequences of unmanned military arial systems, I would think it would be idea for a soldier to just be able to shake it, and toss it up, and then have it return.
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You pay $20,000 and then you have to "Shake" to start it.. :-) LOL!!!
but i suppose this belonged to Sensefly Ebee so where did this Parrot come from?
They're clearly aiming at a non-hobby market... large companies and governments will throw away large sums of money on "ready to go" solutions... and will generally pay ridiculous prices if it comes with a "it works" guarantee. The other side is research. Why put in a grant proposal requesting $500 to build your own drown and operate it, when you can ask for $20,000 for a "commercial drone"... it's not your money... you're just having to convince someone else to give you the money (and they often want to know where the project risks are... a non-flying drone is one of them).
Look at Nao robots... I have 4... they cost AUD$17,000 each to land in the country... they sell for EUR$12,000. There's no more than EUR$2000 worth of hardware. Add twice that for recouping dev costs and running the company.. call it EUR$6000 base price... it's not at retail yet, so academia is clearly supporting the ongoing effort to get it to market, by paying through the nose. Mind you, it wasn't my money, but my employers, and to them, $50K is a drop in the ocean if it's going to have a measurable impact on teaching and research (which its easy to show it will... cool robots motivate students and excite grant managers)!
This comes down to : You pay your IGNORANCE. It is the same in the computer world where people pay thousands of dollars for a really mid-range desktop PC. Why ? Simply because people pay their ignorance.
This is true for every thing : from the mechanics of your car to these UAV sold at 20k or more.
DIY drone, Self built PCs, etc are the proof that with taking some time to get knowledge, you actually EARN money.
Let the ignorant pay such prices, just get knowledge, read, learn, read, learn and save money.
I know I saw an article in a UK paper about that quadcopter being used in the Police force, the price tag on that was 40k.
I talked them at CES. Definately 20k. I also saw a 550 quad that was going for 50k. Sort of blew me away.
Just another bird, a swallow coming from a sUAS provider in Taiwan. http://www.uaver.com/products-uas-S.html . Bungee launch and parachute recovery - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDvlwHW-w48
Hard to not remind me to Gatewing X100
Ka-ching. I just figured out the FAA "No Commercial" loophole. Here's how it works.
You run a business that sells mapping drones... Pre-configured.
So a customer comes in, you sit down with him and he shows you want he wants mapped. You program the drone and sell it to him, pre-configured and ready to map. He only has to do one thing. Get away from it, and hit "auto". You could even have a training session out back.
Customer takes drone home and it maps what he wants. He takes out the sim card and he's done.
Customer then goes to a second company that "Refurbs" used drones. This company cleans and verifies the drone, then sells it back to company #1 for re-sale.
You never fly the drone for commercial purposes. The customer gets what he wants out of it over his private property while he owns it.
Finally you buy it back for less than you sold it and there is your profit.
c est vrai c est cher mais il faut bien comprendre tous ce que cela comprend
mais vraiment impression positive vu la démo
merci encore au concepteur pour la démonstration et bonne chance
I wonder if they might land some sort of European drone contract? Although I'm not a big fan of the political consequences of unmanned military arial systems, I would think it would be idea for a soldier to just be able to shake it, and toss it up, and then have it return.
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