Boston drone maker releases surveillance UAV that can fly forever

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Anyone who has flown a hobby drone knows the technology’s biggest weakness — limited flight time due to inferior battery technology. A 10-minute flight time is an all-too-harsh reality, but you can only stuff so much batteries into a drone before you start affecting its flight. A new drone from Boston drone maker CyPhy Works solves this power problem by using a very small filament that is attached to the drone and that serves as a continuous power supply.

The new Parc drone is designed for aerial surveillance and can fly indefinitely using a micro-filament that sends both power and data from a base station to the drone. The drone remains tethered while airborne, which means it can fly for a long time, but not very far from its base. “It’s basically a robot with unlimited time-of-flight,” said CyPhy Works founder Helen Greiner, who spoke recently at the EmTech 2015 conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts… see more

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