Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Airdog drone follows you anywhere — CES 2015”.
Hey it’s ben popper with the verge hanging out at ces 2015. We’Re checking out the air dog drone. So tell me who you are and what we’re doing here today, hi my name is edgars. I’M ceo of the helico aerospace industries, the company behind the airdog and what is airdog airdog is very unique drone. It’S a drone that can fly up to 45 miles and follow an athlete in action, sports and shoot on a video.
So we developed our own dedicated tracking device, we call air leash and that’s that makes huge difference. Then only with this dedicated device. We could achieve the precision, agility and speed needed to follow really an action port, and so is the drone moving value and also the camera. Are they moving separately independently or together? They are moving uh, partly together.
The drone is doing the yaw movement and but the camera gimbal is pitching the camera, and so it can follow you if you’re out, i know you were doing motocross yesterday when you’re skateboarding here, but what, if you’re doing motocross when it runs into a tree, i Mean how does it know how to get out of the way of that stuff? What we have developed is a software-based uh optical avoidance solution. So if you know that in your motocross track, for example, you have some buildings and trees, you simply use your smartphone and draw in a map, those areas you mark them as no-fly zones, and the drone will know that it should not fly into these zones. Do you think this is where drones are headed, like the next big sort of development for consumer drones is going to be? The follow me feature not necessarily only the follow me feature. We call airdog a personal drone and with personal drone we mean that it’s a drone that does something useful.
You just are not amazed by its the capability to fly and you you don’t fly it manually, but it does something useful for you. So it’s your personal drone, okay, great thanks that was airdog here at ces 2015., be sure to subscribe at youtube.com theverge for more amazing drone videos. .