I feel like they spent the majority of their budget making their CG promotional video. There is less than ten seconds of footage of it actually flying.
And I gotta say, with 3d printing, flexible screens, and everything else that's been coming out, this is definitely one of the coolest and most versatile :)
they asked for 100 grand, got well over a million in funding and have not made anything yet. People are getting angry thinking that they have been scammed
A guy from India is leading this, oh great, I guess we know who everyone's going to bow down to in the future. A robot with an Indian-English accent, with a throne made out of skulls, SkyNet here we come.
Simple Rohan No offense intended, but your comment is too simple Rohan! Is your point that because it is promotional that I should expect exaggeration and therefore not mention it?
This is fake. It cant fly with such small wings. Look at real dragonfly and her wings/body ratio, and then look at this robot. Where is battery ? Is it so small, that it's not visible ? So, how long this robot can "function" (I doubt it can fly) with such small battery ?
It can hover and glide . Principle takeaway ? Flies , birds and cockroaches are at the back of R&D's ' vending machine . We , on the consumer level see whats at the front . Quite literally, 1984 is now a cliche . And yes , even cloaking or really assimilation with its surface
a few questions: - How long does the battery last? I guess no more then half an hour. - How stable is it in wind? - Why would it be better then a QC drone if it can't carry a load? - The army uses even smaller drones then these already, then why would you use this one? - How much sound does it produces? (if used for spionage missions) - How will it ever protect your house if they just can carry it whit them? - Why does every promotional video lies?
Lies! Lies and more Lies! It is really sickening, when kids eagerly try do make them for their school or college projects, to see these Dragon Lies, flutter hopelessly on the dirt instead of the clouds! Plain lure to get funds and sales offers and investments from those - - - - s who believe in these younsters. Too bad from the Scientific Perspective.
+beaglemanzzz I bet you they had major problems putting a camera on this thing, without a stabilizer its useless, and there is no gimbal small enough and light enough to add that will keep the device in the air?
The military already have them, so this is 'reinventing the wheel' for what? To spy on your neighbours? Next invention; an anti nano-drone missile system?
Gordon Freeman, Have you seem what happens to children when a bomb is dropped on or near them? I guess certain ways of beheading people are acceptable, while others are not.
This is amazing. Congratulations to the development team. Its usefulness is unquestionable. However, it can easily fall in wrong hands and then we have problems.
What is the battery life during active usage? What is the maximum operational distance? What software does the Dragonfly support? Does it have flight plan or waypoint capabilities? What is the resolution of the attached camera?
It seems to me that to make this thing useful for surveillance would take a camera with size, weight, and image stabilization technologies more advanced than what it takes to make it fly. But if they can deliver what they promise, it will be a really impressive device.
i know what these guys should do with this. if they manage to make a fully autonomous controls, whether through external controls (ie a program running on a computer communicating with the robot from a ways away) or internal controls (basic programming loaded on the robot), and if they continue making it smaller, they need to make plant pollinators. Robotic bees for commercial use.
I love it.... Well done guys... I am no expert or scientist, just a layman spectator, but I was wondering if the addition of solar panels to the wings and/or body might give it additional power and/or range?
There are 3 different communication channels on the Dragonfly. Yes, Data 2Mbps can be sent over one of the radio channels (which is not Wi-Fi). More information is available on the project page
Thanks Jay... I have been looking at the video of this great invention and it intrigues me no end... another thought (LOL)... given that is prop driven, could there be a way to harness that energy .. similar to the way a wind turbine generator works?.... Cheers
Awesome! The lower sound output is a huge benefit compared to multi rotor rc's. I think you should add mentioning that feature in your demo. What is the db output? Now let's see one big enough to carry 200+#! ;)
On their website it says: "With 20 environmental sensors, cameras and GPS capabilities, it can be developed to track athletes, outdoor events or integrated with an App as a fun way to plot or retrace a day of skiing, hiking or whatever you like." So I'm guessing the answer is yes.
OMEGA has GPS, and yes you can control it with just GPS alone. the 2.4Ghz RC is capable of 200-500 ft of control, more can be achieved if you have wi-fi networks in the vicinity
We will develop some Apps for the higher end models and open up the Development environment for users as well. There are lots of agility, endurance, target tracking etc games that can be deployed for the platforms. We will post updates on those progressively
I have numerous questions... 1. When will they be available for purchase? 2. Do the different wing styles work together (i.e. Bat wing + Dragonfly wing)? 3. Does the camera on the Dragonfly send live video feed to the controller? If you would answer these questions I would be very happy :D
Impressive work! Two questions....I am curious, could it be possible to somehow "program" it to automatically stay within a 15-20 ft radius of its controller?? I like the idea of using this to record landscape surveying and or hiking without having to manually control it. When is this on the retail market and how much?? Thanks and great job!
i've got an idea too! make another version that is just a little bigger but that can carry your stuff around... it would have to sense arount so it doesnt crash, but to stay where you can access your stuff freely
As someone who spent most of his life making real Helicopters and a model enthusiast who fly`s all types of models I find this an interesting project. However power of the battery's in a model or the engines and fuel in a real aircraft is a huge issue. Even using Li Po batteries I cant see this thing flying for long. Also as an engineer I cant see the life mechanically of such a unit being that long either. If you consider my comments worth while I would love to play with one. But I would be critical.
I feel like they spent the majority of their budget making their CG promotional video. There is less than ten seconds of footage of it actually flying.
1:13 'spy on people'; as the camera hovers two little girls! Yeah...that's not stalker, creepy, predator at all!!!!
When he says "spy on people" there's a picture of kids.
Will Eager Something for the high tech pedophile.
Will Eager so fun
What happens when a bird thinks this is lunch and grabs it and flies away?
And I gotta say, with 3d printing, flexible screens, and everything else that's been coming out, this is definitely one of the coolest and most versatile :)
they asked for 100 grand, got well over a million in funding and have not made anything yet. People are getting angry thinking that they have been scammed
And they were, these crowd funding sites are counter productive
***** Because it belongs to the Air Force now.
Jared Graber Ist Recce ? I would hasten CIA/SOG and others like DEVGRU
Whats SOG?
Defense doesn't throw money away on nutters, they see a future full of nastiness for this little beast.
A guy from India is leading this, oh great, I guess we know who everyone's going to bow down to in the future. A robot with an Indian-English accent, with a throne made out of skulls, SkyNet here we come.
Fantastic, young people ! The world's future is you.
Wow, I just got a months worth of exaggerated claims in one video!
bro.. it's a promotional video than a discovery channel documentary
Simple Rohan
No offense intended, but your comment is too simple Rohan! Is your point that because it is promotional that I should expect exaggeration and therefore not mention it?
Atka59 Respect you from a cynic's perspective... funded by USAF, there has to be strength to it.. exaggeration to some, might be reality to others
This is really awesome but I'm not sure how this could possibly be more efficient then a quad rotor since they produce constant thrust.
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This is fake. It cant fly with such small wings. Look at real dragonfly and her wings/body ratio, and then look at this robot. Where is battery ? Is it so small, that it's not visible ? So, how long this robot can "function" (I doubt it can fly) with such small battery ?
Andrelo1111 WTF? You just witnessed it fly at the start of the video,its not fake,its not made of lead is it so it does fly and it costs over a grand.
VIKINGODIN
It can hover and glide . Principle takeaway ? Flies , birds and cockroaches are at the back of R&D's ' vending machine . We , on the consumer level see whats at the front . Quite literally, 1984 is now a cliche . And yes , even cloaking or really assimilation with its surface
a few questions:
- How long does the battery last? I guess no more then half an hour.
- How stable is it in wind?
- Why would it be better then a QC drone if it can't carry a load?
- The army uses even smaller drones then these already, then why would you use this one?
- How much sound does it produces? (if used for spionage missions)
- How will it ever protect your house if they just can carry it whit them?
- Why does every promotional video lies?
Lies! Lies and more Lies!
It is really sickening, when kids eagerly try do make them for their school or college projects, to see these Dragon Lies, flutter hopelessly on the dirt instead of the clouds!
Plain lure to get funds and sales offers and investments from those - - - - s who believe in these younsters.
Too bad from the Scientific Perspective.
Love to see bright young people working toward success.
2 1/2 years later, where's the dragonfly?
+beaglemanzzz quad copters took over.
+Jorgen297 Of course...it's coming out of academia.
+beaglemanzzz I bet you they had major problems putting a camera on this thing, without a stabilizer its useless, and there is no gimbal small enough and light enough to add that will keep the device in the air?
+beaglemanzzz Gone black proberly.
Looks like a promotion video for funding.
I can't wait to see it actually work.
Wow, this raised more than a million dollars. The final product must be amazing.
This is brilliant. Great job guys!
A great tool for oppressing people... well done!
dont feel oppressed.. feel releeeeeased..
The military already have them, so this is 'reinventing the wheel' for what?
To spy on your neighbours?
Next invention; an anti nano-drone missile system?
Gordon Freeman, Have you seem what happens to children when a bomb is dropped on or near them? I guess certain ways of beheading people are acceptable, while others are not.
John Ioannou
Beheading people is unacceptable in any circumstances, and so is bombing people.
Only lunatic psychopaths would suggest otherwise.
niklar55, That's exactly my point.
Nice one Jayant! Wish you all the best.
Very awesome. I have waited for sizes like that :)
Glad I stumbled up in here!
This is amazing. Congratulations to the development team. Its usefulness is unquestionable. However, it can easily fall in wrong hands and then we have problems.
Wow! Mom, I want one for Christmas!
Wow! That is pretty awesome!!!!!
thank you for helping us reach the next level. Cheers!
Nature is the greatest innovator in the Universe.
Flying insects provide lot inspiration to modern technologists to mimic and develop similar machines that can be used in many exciting applications.
this has a lot of potential. i would love to see a larger version.
this is very cool tec,, we are getting better ar the years go by good job guys
What is the battery life during active usage?
What is the maximum operational distance?
What software does the Dragonfly support? Does it have flight plan or waypoint capabilities?
What is the resolution of the attached camera?
Is it G.P.S. enabled?
is it easy to repair on-sight?
Is there a web-sight?
is this all a joke?
Even the uploader's name is Giant Rat. How trustworthy
Your name is spider ass, how ironic
haha :D you again. either you are a part of this cheesy scam, or you invested in it. Either way, the pitty
SpiidAcis lol.. just an engineer who builds small robots.. but eitherway I think indiegogo and kicstarter are great platforms and a firm believer
that was funny.
SpiidAcis he is in on the scam. the only thing that you can find on his account is stuff related to this video
Quite an interesting concept.
Wow!It's really amazing!But it remind s me some German flying applications.Really great!:-)
THAT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COOL!!!
That is not a bad idea at all! It is infact very well thought of.
Very cool. I want one.
It seems to me that to make this thing useful for surveillance would take a camera with size, weight, and image stabilization technologies more advanced than what it takes to make it fly. But if they can deliver what they promise, it will be a really impressive device.
Stereo camera built in?!!! Okay. Dear Santa, I want this for my birth anniversary !!!
That is true. We don't expect the video to be as stable given the small size of the drone, esp. if its a windy day.
Nice idea!
Love the design though
dude if you made this rideable that would be epic
Haha that's my major as well. Just bought an ornithopter too.
Hello from 2020! How are you, Dragonfly?
TECNOLOGIA INCREIBLE
Good question! That's exactly what I would like to know. The one I ordered is Gamma mach 2 (so does not come with gps).
Instantly classified. Literally.. we'll never see it :)
This technology is really promising, good effort!
its your force of te feature , creation design , i like your job ,
a crow will grab your dragonfly and tear it apart.
ohh thats such a great toy, i must have
good job!!!
i know what these guys should do with this. if they manage to make a fully autonomous controls, whether through external controls (ie a program running on a computer communicating with the robot from a ways away) or internal controls (basic programming loaded on the robot), and if they continue making it smaller, they need to make plant pollinators. Robotic bees for commercial use.
wow you guys are smart!
Congrates !
Good luck with that! :P
I have seen these in my back yard. That would be Phoenix AZ.
I wish I could have grabbed one of these from the campaign, didn't know they had this going :(
Very nice
that's awesome
I love it.... Well done guys...
I am no expert or scientist, just a layman spectator, but I was wondering if the addition of solar panels to the wings and/or body might give it additional power and/or range?
It doesn't look very robust . But I like the tech.
this stuff is great
but when the wind hits on!! this will go down
Perfect toy I want one.
My cat would like to have one of those as a toy xD
Awesome
the wings are the only dragonfly design, and it will be 100 years before that thing is as agile as a dragonfly. its neat though
There are 3 different communication channels on the Dragonfly. Yes, Data 2Mbps can be sent over one of the radio channels (which is not Wi-Fi). More information is available on the project page
Im sure it flies under 8 minutes and the motors are lower than 65% efficient do to the size
Its taken humans this long to only mimic the simplest task of nature.
ähhh it took nature much much much longer to develop wings
elc2034 Was going to say the same thing. (: We've begun a whole new line of evolution.
elc2034 Humans knew wings beforehand
Funny how you think flying is simple.
I don't think it's simple. I implied that it was simple for nature.
amazing
I dig it.
Thanks Jay... I have been looking at the video of this great invention and it intrigues me no end... another thought (LOL)... given that is prop driven, could there be a way to harness that energy .. similar to the way a wind turbine generator works?.... Cheers
OMG... cool!!
I'm totally getting one to fly through my house from my bedroom, and watch how people react.
The future is there!!
sorry, no its not ;)
Awesome! The lower sound output is a huge benefit compared to multi rotor rc's. I think you should add mentioning that feature in your demo. What is the db output? Now let's see one big enough to carry 200+#! ;)
On their website it says: "With 20 environmental sensors, cameras and GPS capabilities, it can be developed to track athletes, outdoor events or integrated with an App as a fun way to plot or retrace a day of skiing, hiking or whatever you like." So I'm guessing the answer is yes.
They raised over $1.1M on an Indiegogo campaign in Dec. 2012. Haven't shipped a single unit. Nice videos but not much more.
Damn.
+Dan Tuchler if you read the fine print on the video, paypal and indiegogo is holding their money
i love this thing
it actually is now real but I'm not sure of how good the quality is but it seems pretty stable during flight
4:15 LOL!
rofl matrixed that punkass bullet
even james bond want one of this...oh yeah!
OMEGA has GPS, and yes you can control it with just GPS alone. the 2.4Ghz RC is capable of 200-500 ft of control, more can be achieved if you have wi-fi networks in the vicinity
We will develop some Apps for the higher end models and open up the Development environment for users as well. There are lots of agility, endurance, target tracking etc games that can be deployed for the platforms. We will post updates on those progressively
Shit, how did I miss this?! Will have to wait when it's commercially available :(
nice !
I have numerous questions...
1. When will they be available for purchase?
2. Do the different wing styles work together (i.e. Bat wing + Dragonfly wing)?
3. Does the camera on the Dragonfly send live video feed to the controller?
If you would answer these questions I would be very happy :D
バイオニクスほんとすき
Impressive work! Two questions....I am curious, could it be possible to somehow "program" it to automatically stay within a 15-20 ft radius of its controller?? I like the idea of using this to record landscape surveying and or hiking without having to manually control it.
When is this on the retail market and how much??
Thanks and great job!
When is someone going to build a "GORT" type robot? THAT would be impressive!
i've got an idea too! make another version that is just a little bigger but that can carry your stuff around... it would have to sense arount so it doesnt crash, but to stay where you can access your stuff freely
aweesome
Great job! How much can it be scaled up?
"spy on people"
>shows kids
did NSA order some?
felixccaa probably
Bas Wijkstra they're gonna be disappointed then
I need that.
They claim it's so light-weight and small.
If so then it probably can only fly for like literally 2 minutes max.
And the scientist who were in on atomic energy thought he was doing a good thing for humanity too.
As someone who spent most of his life making real Helicopters and a model enthusiast who fly`s all types of models I find this an interesting project.
However power of the battery's in a model or the engines and fuel in a real aircraft is a huge issue.
Even using Li Po batteries I cant see this thing flying for long.
Also as an engineer I cant see the life mechanically of such a unit being that long either.
If you consider my comments worth while I would love to play with one.
But I would be critical.
I agree with Aaron, pollinators would be good right now...