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Somehow, an Incredible Robotic Dragonfly is Now on Indiegogo

by saurabhpalan on 11/10/12, 12:16 AM with 5 comments

• by jsmcgd on 11/10/12, 1:09 AM

  Indiegogo page: http://www.indiegogo.com/robotdragonfly

• by sbacheld on 11/10/12, 4:31 AM

  This looks pretty awesome especially with the SDK. The hovering looks a little unstable compared to the hummingbird (http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/...), but still very impressive. If they add support for wireless charging, you could have a pretty cool home monitoring system where the dragonfly roams about your home and returns to a charging station when needed

• by stargazer-3 on 11/10/12, 4:30 AM

  It is ineresting that their indiegogo campaign has an upper funding limit, as all of their goals are limited in size. Is it due to some sort of production limitations? I think it's strange, given that they've surpassed their goal already and still have 52 days to go.

• by mistermann on 11/10/12, 9:04 AM

  This is really amazing.

  Vimeo video didn't work for me, here's another:

  http://video.golem.de/wissenschaft/9642/robot-dragonfly-tech...

• by caublestone on 11/10/12, 6:43 AM

  http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752148