A new drone design takes the best of fixed-wing and multirotor drones, making flying in winds a breeze. It also looks pretty cool.
to help drastically reduce the power consumption of either, especially when it's windy. When fighting the wind, multi-copter and fixed-wing drones drain their batteries while attempting to stay in position or move. With morphing wings that change to reduce wind resistance, the Morpho VTOL drone solves this issue. Its clever wing design can make the wind work in the drone's favor when used strategically.is being created by Swiss firm Elythor and is currently in functional prototype form.
The drone tilts into a horizontal posture and moves its wings into a biplane-like configuration when it is ready to transition into "fixed"-wing forward flight. It may adjust its wings into an asymmetric configuration to counteract the off-center wind resistance if it meets crosswinds while traveling.
"Winged drones have the advantage of longer flight times, while quadcopters have better maneuverability," says Elythor CEO/cofounder Harry Vourtsis. "We combined the two and added an adaptative wing system that reduces the drone’s power requirement even further," he added.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Critics call for greater accountability in aftermath of allegations that Franklin Towne fixed its lottery“As taxpayers, we should not be funding schools that engage in such practices,” one public official said of allegations of lottery-fixing at Franklin Towne Charter High School.
Read more »
The Hobbit Movies Secretly Solved Peter Jackson’s Balrog ProblemThe Hobbit Movies might have been maligned but they also solved Peter Jackson's Balrog problem by introducing one new villain character.
Read more »
Stunt or sinister: The Kremlin drone incident, unpackedDrones have become tools for everything from eye-catching gimmicks to even an alleged assassination attempt in Venezuela in 2018.
Read more »
4 injured in Kyiv from drone debris in Russian strikeNEW: Four people have been injured from falling debris after a Russian drone was shot down above Kyiv, the mayor has announced.
Read more »
First-of-its-kind inflatable drone perches like a bird for search and rescueA robotics team at ASU developed a first-of-its-kind quadrotor drone with both an inflatable frame and a novel gripper for collision resilience.
Read more »
Drone footage shows steady stream of migrants entering Texas before Title 42 expirationHundreds of migrants have been captured in aerial footage streaming across the Mexico border into Texas – days before the end of Title 42, the pandemic-era measure that allowed for the rapid expuls…
Read more »