The INSANE Engineering Behind Micro-Drones

Let's take a look at some of the smallest flying machines in the world!

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[neIntangible]

I can manifest and guide swarms of fruit flies around my apartment with strategic placement of bananas and peaches left on my countertop.

[haydnw]

YES your voice it back. Good because that honestly makes your videos more authentic

[MrJdsenior]

That tech is TOTALLY sane, dude. Kidding, mostly, and yes, taking things too literally. And you can miniaturize motors and propellers to orders of magnitude smaller than what is on drones. There are even motors, IIRC, based on single molecules, that is several orders of magnitude smaller. And since we can manipulate individual atoms via a TEM, I suspect props can be made for them to drive. Also, there are drones out there that are literally the size of insects, like house flys.

[capitalistdingo]

Propellers and such may make drones stay above the “nano” designation (whatever we set that at) but I’m not sure “nano” drones will be able to carry useful cameras, sensors and significant computing power. As small as such tech is and can get, something the size of a dragon fly with propellers will just be able to carry more of a payload for longer distances than a borgified fly or an ionic wind thingy. At the end of the day, a drone has to do something and making it ever smaller may seem impressive but it accomplishes less and less.

[dikshantsharma]

reminds of the bees they used in GI Joe Retaliation

[ducle]

i wish there is a toy version of the black hornet, that thing is so cool and quiet

[ConradSzymczak]

WOW! Interesting to see your face after all the videos I have heard of yours!

[WoeWoeWoe]

So that’s why magnets are sticking to people 😅

[Vile_Entity_]

Oh no we have hacked a fruit fly. What dastardly evil humans we are 😂

[eprohoda]

How u doingg?. you shared outstanding content, 💪

[pihakamera]

Maybe maple seed type passive bot is best military solution, spread 10 000 nano bots to desired area just to wait someone to come, network of bots working together is more powerful even if one bot could cover one m3 at a time. Just like one ant is nothing, but 1 million can eat your house.

[garygwhicks]

Micro drones won't work outside the lab due to power requirements. Cool lab tech though...

[wonderwoman]

It looks like this thing that tried to kill Paul Arteides in Dune😅

[youtubehandol]

Kids of today are going to live in fear.

[ThomasAndersonbsf]

no talk about ionic wind style drone tech apparently so far LOL

[josephcross]

If they do this insects then they will do this to humans

[crispy-k]

I'm no electronics nor drone, nor anything expert...
Can anyone explain to me how that Black Hornet from FLIR can fly for 25 minutes? Sure it's light, but small, no space for battery considering all the other parts.
Do we just have some 1840's batteries while these... "special people" have future 2069 battery technology? hahaha.
Cool video, many interesting things, might look into them some day when i remember and get curious ;) Glad i subbed a while ago. Keep it up!