[drone-list] TechJect Dragonfly
Gregory Foster
gfoster at entersection.org
Fri Jan 11 09:55:13 PST 2013
Following up on this thread, TechJect just closed out their Indiegogo
campaign, which aimed to raise $110,000 dollars to cover their initial
manufacturing goals.
They raised $1,142,523.
[1]http://www.indiegogo.com/robotdragonfly/x/1736250?c=home
gf
On 11/10/12 12:42 AM, Tim McNamara wrote:
The military applications of this are silent surveillance and
reconnaissance within buildings. The model they're selling here only
weighs a few grams and probably couldn't sustain weaponry in the
payload. The dragonfly design appears to be extremely agile, though
and I guess there's nothing preventing larger models.
The video seems to be actively soliciting sales from the
intelligence and defence communities.
Tim McNamara
[2]@timClicks | [3]timmcnamara.co.nz
On 10 November 2012 19:34, Gregory Foster <[4]gfoster at entersection.org>
wrote:
IEEE Spectrum (Nov 8) - "Somehow an Incredible Robotic Dragonfly is Now
on Indiegogo":
[5]http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/someho
w-an-incredible-robotic-dragonfly-is-now-on-indiegogo
From the article:
So, uh, yeah, who are these guys and where did this thing come from?
Well, the company, TechJect, is a spinoff from Georgia Tech's Robotics
& Intelligent Machines Lab, and their robotic dragonfly has already
been funded, with a million dollars (!) from the US Air Force Office of
Scientific Research. I dunno what sort of super secret laser canon
totin' version of this robot the USAF is currently playing around with,
but the specs of the robot Dragonflies that are being offered on
Indiegogo are pretty damn impressive.
[6]http://www.techject.com/
HT @mathewi
[7]http://twitter.com/mathewi/status/267145657226252291
gf
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References
1. http://www.indiegogo.com/robotdragonfly/x/1736250?c=home
2. http://twitter.com/timClicks
3. http://timmcnamara.co.nz/
4. mailto:gfoster at entersection.org
5. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/somehow-an-incredible-robotic-dragonfly-is-now-on-indiegogo
6. http://www.techject.com/
7. http://twitter.com/mathewi/status/267145657226252291
8. mailto:gfoster at entersection.org
9. http://entersection.com/
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