- capable of taking off vertically and spying on those below it.
- created as part of a tie-up with robotics company ZMP
- the Aerosense venture combines Sony’s networking and sensing hardware with ZMP’s expertise to create the flying, watching robot
- Sony hopes that it can hire out the technology to companies, to let them perform surveillance and watch over people
- unlike classic drones, which use rotors in a quadcopter formation to fly up like a helicopter, the Aerosense project flies like a plane. That means that it can get further and faster, allowing companies to look down at much bigger areas
- Sony says it could be eventually used by companies for projects that could include architecture and civil engineering
- "By making them automated, drones will be considerably safer because many of accidents today are caused by human error,” Hisashi Taniguchi, chief executive of Aerosense and ZMP, said according to The Guardian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btT3_SR7rE0
Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1
