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Tokyo Drone Delivery Fail

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  • xanaduxanadu Posts: 3,347
    edited 2015-03-06 18:18
    Some of the hovering stability was impressive. The rest was very funny thanks!
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2015-03-06 21:12
    erco wrote: »
    Don't sell your UPS stock just yet.

    http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/crocs_drone_delivery_fails_miserably_in_tokyo

    New meanings for COD and DOA. Perhaps they just need FAA certified pilots.
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2015-03-07 02:20
    What the F! were the idiots behind that stunt smoking?

    Sorry about the language...

    A building like that is full of updrafts, downdrafts, turbulence, obstacles...
    Have they even heard of the Bernoulli effect?

    In the first cut, where the drone crashes into the audience, it first drops the shoes.
    My guess is that control SW is 'assuming' that the shoes are still hooked, and are using too much power on the motors.
    Something that should have been spotted during testing...
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2015-03-07 03:43
    IMHO, rather than start out trying to deliver some valued payload to a random customer, why not develop drone delivery by having them take out the garbage? Everyone would love that.

    Once that is solved and routine, other uses can evolve.

    Seems like the guys in marketing had a brain-wave and no flight time.
  • JLockeJLocke Posts: 354
    edited 2015-03-07 22:22
    Loopy Byteloose wrote: »
    IMHO, rather than start out trying to deliver some valued payload to a random customer, why not develop drone delivery by having them take out the garbage? Everyone would love that.

    Everyone would love it until the drone (and the garbage) crashed into the crowd of onlookers!
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2015-03-08 10:02
    JLocke wrote: »
    Everyone would love it until the drone (and the garbage) crashed into the crowd of onlookers!

    I didn't realize onlookers were a big crowd around garabage trucks.
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2015-03-08 10:26
    They'd be gathered just in the hope of watching it crash...
    schadenfreude is quite the powerful motivator.

    Also, most people have the survival instinct of a lemming on speed, and wouldn't even consider keeping a safe distance.
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