Flying a $495,000 Human Drone

This should be closer to $50,000

Now with the hype around toroidal props this could become really quiet and actually usable around neighborhoods and busy areas

I LOVE THIS DESIGN!!! kudos to the creators!

They should add a pro cinema camera in the front and a camera underneath the shell to get a landing view.

"Human drone" congratulations you've just discovered a helicopter

I like the flight control method. Anyone can fly this. The control system handles the complexity using sensors.

Now that's a Spy Kids Helicopter!

This is EPIC! I do not know where technology is taking us in the future? 🤔

A drone should be unmanned aerial vehicle. If a man sitting on it, it should be called something like quadcopter or micro helicopter

Congrats Serg on that awesome experience!!! One of the perks of the job lol so cool!

Really cool to see this happening! Great video!

I spent 6 years at flight academy and you just learned thing in 40 minutes. Nice😎

I love how they placed the propeller unlike the other one looking like it would chop people's heads for sports

I hope this becomes the flying car we were hoping for.

I was excited about this. They were supposed to come to Philadelphia and then Covid hit pre-paid for a chance to take it for a drive. I never got my money back or my ride. Extremely excited about this type of tech. I truly hope one day it does spread and I’m able to take that ride.

This will be the flying car. Not the 4-wheel look we thought it would be. But this will def be practical. Fully programable to prevent accidents, everyone can fly at different altitudes and flight paths, automated style. Amazing!

This device was send from the future! 😳👏🍻

Every time I see these kinds of huge, occupied drones, I remember the crash of Flight 19 into the Potomac River and how hard that chopper pilot worked repeatedly to try to help the people drowning in the freezing river by dropping flotation devices and pull lines to them. Something that was automatically computer gimballed, that was slow and steady, could have simply pulled a flat floatation panel with handles over to the crash victims and then had the shore personnel pull them back to shore. My point is that this could have very serious lifesaving applications in the right circumstances, even with a short fifteen-minute flying time it must have. It is a great design. The batteries are placed right where their weight is equally distributed to steady the vehicle and the batteries can be cooled by the blade downwash. The many small blades and engines do not suffer from the huge stresses that huge single blades and heavy single motors do. Plus, the entire drone being unitized makes any worn out units replaceable quickly. Plus, there must be failure protocol built into the computer software so if one of the many lifting engines fails, the rest take over, regimbal the unit steady and easily land it safely to the ground. This thing is brilliant. The only caveat I would have is to never store this in direct sunlight. The polymers it is made of may become brittle if left in hot, direct sunlight for too long. Use on the sunny days for sure but simply keep the thing inside a garage when not in use.

They should bring these to places like Victoria Falls and Niagra Falls

This looks like the best single person HUMAN DRONE