All or most recent developments in the field of small autonomous drones (example: the Amazon video) seem to use quadcopters. I find that pretty suprising considering quadcopters have never been used ...

Last month we covered the launch of an interesting Kickstarter project that aimed to jump-start sales of a drone version of a fully-functional hover bike. The quadcopter drone acts as a proof of ...

What a sweet thing it is to see the first outdoor flight of a quadcopter. [Botched] has done a wonderful job of documenting the entire build process. Take a look at all that he has done, then jump ...

Aerospace engineers Ron Barrett and Richard Bramlette set out to build a quadcopter unlike any other—one that can fly at high speeds like a rocket, up to 133 mph on one test flight. The idea behind ...

Over the past few years, the form factor of the consumer drone has become fairly standard. Almost every popular offering currently on the market takes the shape of a quadcopter, with four rotors on a ...

The Israel defence forces’ land command and the nation’s defence ministry are developing an unmanned quadcopter to support ground units. Currently being defined by the land command’s technical branch, ...

The design of small UAVs usually falls into one of two categories: the cruciform quadcopter (with extra arms added as necessary) and the fixed-wing glider (such as early iterations of Google’s ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. A program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) lets interns and junior engineers use model-based design with ...