{"id":31656,"date":"2011-02-20T16:43:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/coming-soon-to-a-war-near-you-robo-hummingbird-drones-80beats\/"},"modified":"2011-02-20T16:43:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:43:51","slug":"coming-soon-to-a-war-near-you-robo-hummingbird-drones-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/coming-soon-to-a-war-near-you-robo-hummingbird-drones-80beats.php","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon to a War Near You: Robo-Hummingbird Drones? | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you enjoy the sight of a hummingbird in a garden, you might want to look twice&ndash;because it could be the government&rsquo;s new avian-inspired drone. Dubbed &ldquo;Nano Hummingbird,&rdquo; this camera-toting, remote-controlled surveillance tool is the latest gadget to fly out the doors of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency).<\/p><p>Commissioned by the Pentagon in 2006 and designed by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avinc.com\/\">AeroVironment<\/a>, this bird-drone&rsquo;s abilities match its $4 million price tag: It flies forward, backward, and sideways, and it can even hover in mid-air. That&rsquo;s not bad for a battery-powered, 6.5-inch long bundle of communication systems and motors that weighs in at two-thirds of an ounce. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve achieved what our customer asked us to,&rdquo; AeroVironment Vice President Steve Gitlin told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2011\/02\/17\/bird-bond-new-nano-hummingbird-camera-takes-spying-to-the-sky\/\">TIME Magazine<\/a>. But with a maximum speed of 11 miles per hour, natural hummingbirds can fly circles around this robot.<\/p><p>DARPA hopes Nano Hummingbird could eventually be used as an extra eye on the battlefield.<\/p><blockquote><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avinc.com\/media_gallery\/videos\/uas\">Video shows the drone<\/a> flying outside and in, successfully maneuvering through a doorway. AeroVironment says it has reached &ldquo;a technical milestone never before achieved &mdash; controlled precision hovering and fast-forward flight of a two-wing, flapping wing aircraft that carries its own energy ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NVYRTAHlLI4DW2ZT1Qbo1_zIEBo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8ccd3_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NVYRTAHlLI4DW2ZT1Qbo1_zIEBo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8ccd3_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8ccd3_PLtGyqGsEq4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><\/blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8ccd3_hC7Arexj6vo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you enjoy the sight of a hummingbird in a garden, you might want to look twice&ndash;because it could be the government&rsquo;s new avian-inspired drone. Dubbed &ldquo;Nano Hummingbird,&rdquo; this camera-toting, remote-controlled surveillance tool is the latest gadget to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/coming-soon-to-a-war-near-you-robo-hummingbird-drones-80beats.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}