Seems somebody wants me to send them 500 dollars to help develop a new product. There is not much indication on that beautifully minimalist web site as to who they are or why I could trust them with my money.
Love that autonomous following feature, and I'm curious what it has in the way of obstacle avoidance. Tree limbs, power lines, phone poles and other "singularities". Could be sensors, could be image processing. Might be nothing.
It funny how the underlying problem (GPS accuracy) cannot be fixed, yet so many people claim to have follow me drones. One of my copters has follow me and out of an hour of filming you'd be lucky to get 20 minutes of decent footage, and it is always from far away. So far you're not very clear in the image. Could be anyone. What they show in the advertisement when it is less than 20' away and following you perfectly was probably remote control. Seemed like he had a lot of standard transmitters laying around.
When will people learn, under promise and over deliver. Oh wait, you can't source money under promising.
The video doesn't show anything that you wouldn't expect in a "beta" product. It actually performed pretty well for a product that's sill some 7-8 months from being released.
That said, the $1,000 they will be asking for it when it comes on sale is WAY too much. They will have competitors that will fly away with their lunch, and eat it too.
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Per the video, even grandma likes and can use drones now.
Seems somebody wants me to send them 500 dollars to help develop a new product. There is not much indication on that beautifully minimalist web site as to who they are or why I could trust them with my money.
Hey, but it's only 500 dollars right?
I guess it has an idea how high it is and at least tries to avoid the ground
-Phil
Nothing ever is... How about a link to that video?
When will people learn, under promise and over deliver. Oh wait, you can't source money under promising.
Mike B...,
That said, the $1,000 they will be asking for it when it comes on sale is WAY too much. They will have competitors that will fly away with their lunch, and eat it too.
That would explain all the drones in D.C. lately...
C.W.
It will be interesting to see if they really refund the money.
Not only that they are being sued for misrepresentation http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/01/13/s-f-drone-maker-lily-robotics-sued.html
Seems that video was totally fake. Being made by a “much more expensive, professional camera drone that requires two people to operate,”
That is to say, neither drone hardware or clever flight software existed even as prototypes.