Seen here is a quadrocopter, a small flying device that can carry a camera. In the past, such a device could fly for no more than about 20 minutes. Ascending Technologies and LaserMotiv ...

The Parrot AR.Drone is a $300 toy.. That's a lot of money to drop on something you'll fly around your home or at the park. After playing with the hardware, however, that price is more than ...

Liveleaks has published an iPhone video taken by a Connecticut man of a woman assaulting him for flying a video-enabled quadrocopter on a public beach. The man originally posted the video to ...

The algorithm is executed on the quadrocopter’s onboard micro-controller, and the only sensors required are the quadrocopter’s angular rate gyroscopes. We use blinking LEDs, mounted on the ...

A research team from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has modified a commercially-available quadrocopter and turned it into an autonomous, flying running partner for solo joggers.

Straight from the Aerospace Controls Laboratory comes a variable-pitch quadrocopter designed by [Mark Cutler] and [Jonathan P. Howe]. While real, full-sized helicopters always have variable pitch r… ...

Back in 2014, NASA proposed using drones to explore Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Well, three years later, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab has a pitch for the aeronautics agency. Like NASA ...

A new app prototype lets users control an AR Drone quadrocopter over Wi-Fi through the head-mounted Epson BT-100 display. Skip to main content. The homepage. The Verge logo.

Yeah, we're doomed. Remember those cool Quadrocopter Manhacks created by the GRASP Lab at Penn State? Well it's getting worse: now these things can react to objects thrown in their path and fly ...

The quadrocopter will be powered solely with laser power beaming -- the wireless transfer of energy over distances using laser light -- to create an endless source of power to the aircraft.

The quadrocopter Millennium Falcon started off as a custom-built "Prophecy 335" with a carbon and aluminium frame, and T-Motors 2208-18 1100kV engines.

Two companies say they have perfected a method of using beamed lasers to power a small flying device for more than 12 hours. The so-called quadrocopter can be used by law enforcement.