Look, the ash machine! Taking stock of new intelligence flying in the sky

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Last week, we introduced a few commercial drones, in fact, these sound high-end domineering on the level of the UAV is also a wide range of civilian, such as aerial photos. Today we will take stock of those civilian multi-axis aircraft.

1, Parrot AR

In 2010, Parrot launched its first small four-wing unmanned aircraft, which can be controlled by the IPhone, and can fly directly without any commissioning. has now been updated to the third generation of no AR.Drone 3.0, in addition to the performance of the iteration, but also can be used in aerial photography and film shooting.

AR. Drone 3.0 is more than any other UAV in the market in terms of the stability of air flight and stay. Also, AR. Drone 3.0 uses a fisheye camera to increase the range of aerial photography in the case of keeping no more than a pound of weight. At the same time, can cooperate with Oculus Rift use.

However, the biggest problem with AR. Drone 3.0 is the endurance. It uses a 1200 ma battery and can only fly for 12 minutes, that is, less than 2 kilometers away. AR. Drone 3.0 will be priced at $300 to 1000 dollars. Shipments are expected in the fourth quarter of this year.

2. Xinjiang DJI

The company, founded in 06, has valued more than 500 million dollars. Now the development of product lines include: Ace one series, Wookong-m series, Zen-thinking series of high-precision industrial Yuntai, Somersault Cloud series, such as multi-rotary wing aerial aircraft. In the model and toy direction, there are mainly Phantom series, WOOKONG-H remote control helicopter controller, Naza series, Hot Wheels series. One of the common user contact more or Phantom series, hit TV show "Where Dad" aerial lens shooting is phantom.

One of the Phantom has been updated to Phantom 2 vision+. Phantom built-in high-precision three-axis gyro stable PTZ, can actively offset the camera jitter. At the same time, the use of built-in inertial navigation sensors and GPS, can be in the air stable hover shooting. However, the price is slightly higher, reaching 1299 dollars.

3. Ghost Intelligent Aerial Robot

Ghost Intelligent Aerial robot is an intelligent aerial vehicle developed by the domestic EHang team. Ghost easy to operate, users simply click on the "Take Off" button on the APP, select the destination, click Return, three steps to complete all the flight process, greatly reducing the technical threshold of the aircraft.

Ghost Intelligent Aerial robot has completed the product hardware development, open mold and trial production, into the mass generation stage, the user can purchase to a minimum 2299 of the price of a Ghost. The price is 2299 yuan.

4, Micro drone

Micro drone, a remote control vehicle, was developed by extreme fliers and is now in its third generation, and it is said that the first two generations of products sold 20,000 in a year. Micro drone the biggest feature is small size, only the size of the palm, can be 360 degrees smooth flip. The induction distance between the handle and the plane can reach 120 feet.

It is now available on the extreme fliers's website, priced at 99 dollars. Future micro drone may open source, allowing users to print their favorite shapes and sizes through 3D printers, and the only constant is the inside sensors and chips.

5, hexo+

hexo+ this June only in Kickstarer online, is a six-axis aircraft, using the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the latest development of the Mavlink port, can allow the aircraft and unmanned aircraft transmission of real-time data, can automatically follow the camera, really in the process of freeing hands. Users first need to create their own 3D models on a matching App, follow an aerial camera on an aircraft, and then automatically wait for the aircraft to walk with you.

hexo+ weighs 980 grams, it can fly to the height of nearly 50 meters, can reach 72 km/h/hour, it is very suitable for the extreme sports shooting, because hexo+ also with GoPro in the sale, the price is 1099 dollars. At present, hexo+ in Kickstarter finally raise money 1.3 million dollars.

6, AirDog

Air Dog is an intelligent vehicle similar to the one we reported in the past few days, which is easy to carry and can be folded and even stuffed into a backpack. hexo+ The user wears the Airleash tracking controller to bind, then presses the startup key, the Air Dog can take off, the user may set its altitude and the angle independently.

Like hexo+, AirDog is also more suitable for the GoPro partner, for extreme skiing, surfing, motorcycles, skateboards and other sports. However, the AirDog price is not cheap, the lowest price during the period of the financing will also be 995 dollars.