Hover Camera quadcopter drone is more than a drone to selfies!

The Chinese start-up Zero Zero Robotics has unveiled its very first model of autonomous Hover Camera quadcopter drone that allows to take pictures from remote and ultra-stable.

The company is located in Beijing, with offices in Hangzhou, Shenzhen and San Francisco. The reason for its establishment in China: “Get closer to suppliers and manufacturers. Much of the R & D work is to know the least seller, the smallest chip …. At Silicon Valley, you have much more limited access to this information than if you are based in China, “said Meng Qiu Wang, one of the founders.

The company was founded in 2014 by two former students of Stanford University. Meng Qiu Wang holds a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon and a PHD in machine learning from Stanford. Before starting his own business, he started his career as a software engineer at Twitter and then as a Big Data specialist at Alibaba. Tony Zhang is a graduate of Stanford Computer Software.

At the same time it unveiled its very first model of autonomous Hover Camera quadcopter drone, the company raised $ 25 million from multiple investors including IDG, and Chinese GSR Ventures and ZhenFund. It now has close to 80 employees who are actively working on a wide range of consumer robotics products.

Hover Camera quadcopter drone

It is a true jewel of technology. With a 13 million megapixel camera and 4K video recording, the drone is equipped with state-of-the-art technologies that allow it to map its environment in 3D and move in an optimal and fluid way. But the real plus is its tremendous stability of flight. Barely released in the air, the Hover Camera quadcopter drone stabilizes its flight and adopts the best position alone, thanks to a sonar and cameras, which allow him to follow a person and take a 360-degree photo.

So far there’s nothing new. Camera drones that follow their user are out there like Lily Camera, or Hexo +. But it seems that Zero Zero Robotics has more than one trick in his pocket. “Our approach differs from that of Lily Camera or Phantom 4. Lily mostly uses a GPS to follow you, which means you have to wear a device on your wrist,” or a smartphone. As for the Phantom 4, “it works through visual computation, but relies mainly on motion tracking. But we use a system of body recognition and facial “explains the designer of the Hover Camera quadcopter drone.

To do this, the engineers of the start-up have developed in-house algorithms that run on an ultra-compact printed circuit board and operate on the Snapdragon Flight platform. Its quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor allows it to run artificial intelligence in a compact yet fast way. Designed in carbon fiber, the Hover Camera weighs only 238 grams (just below the threshold of 250 grams above which drones must be registered in the US Federal Aviation Administration records) and measures 18 cm by 13 cm. If you plan to go to the top speed of selfies, you will have to pay $ 600. It’s already less than the Mavic Pro at $999. You will receive your boom at selfies 2.0 from the summer holidays.

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