From TechCrunch
By Matt Burns (@mjburnsy)
SkySpecs has solved the biggest problem with drones: avoiding obstacles. With the company’s first product, launching today at TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield 2015, drones become aware of their surroundings and will automatically avoid objects. If a person walks towards the spinning blades of death, the drone will casually back out of the way. If there is a tree in the way, the drone will avoid it.
Best of all, this system works with existing drone platforms.
Full article here SkySpecs' Guardians
Comments
Very interesting, but I don't see this coming into the mainstream anytime soon. The laser rangefinder on the top is over $5,000, not including the other hardware we can't see. If a lower cost laser were used, this could become standard on every craft.
That is excellent news. Most of the "follow me" drones don't have this ability. So perhaps this technology will become mainstream from here on in.
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