[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjXvzMdf8Nk&w=470] It was bound to happen sooner or later, but that doesn’t diminish the awesomeness of [Matthew]’s ...

Quadcopters tend to have very poor efficency because of their high disk loading. High disk loading– that is, how much weight ...

A new quadcopter can negotiate its way through a room completely on its own. It does not need any human interference, and in contrast to other models, it is not assisted by any external computer. All ...

Explore the design and performance of a massive 3D printed quadcopter with variable pitch propellers. A fascinating look at ...

There’s nothing quite like the thrill of piloting your own aircraft, navigating the sky and seeing the world from a whole new perspective. With a quadcopter, you can experience what it’s like to fly ...

Arizona-based start-up Krossblade is developing a five-passenger "flying car"-type vehicle known as the SkyCruiser. Among other things, plans call for it to take off and land like a quadcopter, while ...

While humanity is still far from possessing the power of Professor X, brain-control technologies are progressing. We've written about brainwaves being used to play PC games, control smartphone apps, ...

The swiftlet may not look much different than other little birds, but it has one unique ability – it builds its nest out of its own saliva. Inspired by the swiftlet, scientists at Imperial College ...

All or most recent developments in the field of small autonomous drones (example: the Amazon video) seem to use quadcopters. I find that pretty suprising considering quadcopters have never been used ...

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The design of small UAVs usually falls into one of two categories: the cruciform quadcopter (with extra arms added as necessary) and the fixed-wing glider (such as early iterations of Google’s ...