Zipline announces new delivery drone that precisely lowers a tethered 'droid' (theverge.com) 16 points by r_o_b_o_t 3y ago ↗ HN
[–] dreadmocks 3y ago ↗ From a controls perspective, controlling a drone while tethered to a mini drone in potentially high winds is quite impressive [–] r_o_b_o_t 3y ago ↗ Agreed! It looks like the droid can only move up and down via the winch so if there was a big gust of wind it seems like the mother drone would have to react very quickly [–] sgtnoodle 3y ago ↗ Thanks! I'm one of the engineers at Zipline.
[–] r_o_b_o_t 3y ago ↗ Agreed! It looks like the droid can only move up and down via the winch so if there was a big gust of wind it seems like the mother drone would have to react very quickly [–] sgtnoodle 3y ago ↗ Thanks! I'm one of the engineers at Zipline.
[–] ortusdux 3y ago ↗ I wonder if Amazon has done anything with their delivery drone "mothership" patent. I seem to remember talk of supplying merchandise to large events.https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/29/14114190/amazon-patent-d...
[–] oakwhiz 3y ago ↗ Can things be called "droids" without jeopardizing yourself to trademark lawyers?
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