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It's a Nano Hummingbird!

Nano Hummingbird

Los Angles Times Story

Aerovironment has been working on this since 2006. Under a $4 million contract from Darpa they have a hummingbird drone that weighs 19 grams, flies 11 mph, can hover, fly forwards, backwards or sideways, turn clockwise and counterclockwise and flight time is 8 minutes.

 

19 grams! Battery, motors, communications, video camera, and hummingbird paint scheme. That's less than 4 nickels in weight.

 

The pentagon mileposts for this project include hovering in a 5 mph wind, fly indoors and back out through a normal size doorway.

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  • Awesome.

     

    But we really need a revolution in battery tech; 8 minutes is a tad too short.

     

    Hopefully something like micro turbines will come along shortly.

  • The video of  a 1 minute flight is in http://www.avinc.com/nano

     

    Not sure about the 8 minutes or the hours between overhauls, but suspect the $30 version from Shanghai is just around the corner.

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  • I like it!
  • That's incredible!      

     

    Identification, please.

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  • I already didn't like what birds do to my house and car. And now they might be working for the government? But seriously that is pretty cool and it probably won't discharge all over my car. I just wonder how long until you can get one for free inside of a box of cereal.
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