The Startup Zero Zero Robotics has introduced its concept of an autonomous quad flying, but the drone rather than “flying camera”. Hover Camera could recognize people and follow these independently – without needing GPS.
With Hover Camera, the Chinese Startup Zero Zero Robotics wants to launch a quad-copter on the market, which the company itself rather than flying camera designates. Hover Camera has a built-in 13 megapixel camera with image stabilization and thanks to built-in algorithms can recognize faces and keep them apart.
The user can then select a face, which Hover Camera subsequently follows independently. In doing so, the aircraft does not orient itself with the help of GPS like other flight cameras, such as the Lily Camera, but via the built-in camera. A second camera is for support: it is directed downwards.
Hover Camera is particularly easy to use: In a video the inventors of the flying camera show how the device is simply released in the air. Then it floats on the spot. To ensure that the user does not damage the rotors, they are housed in a carbon fiber housing.
The rotors can be folded away together with their protective cage. Hover Camera is then only as big as a pocket book. The control of the drone, or the selection of the object to be tracked, is done via a smartphone. Inside the flying camera, a Snapdragon-801 processor, which is responsible for the implementation of the sequence algorithms.
In a conversation with IEEE Spectrum, the hover-camera makers have stated that there are already 1,000 functioning units. 200 of them are to be given to Betatester, on the website interested parties can apply. Zero-Zero founder Meng Qui Wang has further plans for his flying camera: he can also imagine the flying machine as a flying eye for other household robots. Then Hover Camera should warn the other devices, for example, of obstacles.
Hover Camera is priced at 600 US dollars with 8 flight time.
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