Multicopter drones are breaking through the final restriction on their movement in the air: they no longer need to hover parallel with the ground. The Voliro prototype's six props can tilt 360 degrees ...

Hexacopter flight times over an hour should soon become possible. Chinese drone manufacturer Walkera has decided to go beyond the battery, teaming up with micro-generator producers at GenSmart to ...

An interdisciplinary team of 11 college students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) and Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Voliro set forth with the goal of designing a ...

Lightweight, easily transportable design makes it easy to capture amazing images on the go Weighing just 3.3kg (7.2lb), the S900 has a maximum take-off weight of 8.2kg (18lb) Compatible with DJI’s ...

Camera-equipped hexacopters have been buzzing around our heads for a while now, but improvements in reliability, sturdiness and control, as well as reductions in cost, mean that an increasing number ...

Tapping the overhead shooting ability of an unmanned aerial system, filmmakers generate an eerie Tron-like motif as only overhead photography can. By Clay Dillow Published Dec 13, 2012 1:00 AM EST Get ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? The United Kingdom has developed a new drone devoted strictly to battlefield combat.

This week TiaLinx has unveiled its Phoenix 40-A unmanned hexacopter (helicopter with six blades) which can sense breathing and motion in buildings on the ground. This is the newest addition to the ...

[Robert’s] been hard at work becoming a hexacopter expert over the past two years, and he’s offered up a retrospective of his multi rotor build experience since he first clicked the “buy” button on ...

We are living in the golden age of unmanned aerial vehicles. The newest addition to the constantly expanding droneosphere is Voliro, an hexacopter with individually tiltable axes that allow it to fly ...

What began as a "baby bump photo shoot" in San Francisco's Alamo Square turned into a surprise wedding proposal with the help of an unlikely ally, a ring-delivering hexacopter drone.Early on a cool ...

The government publishes its latest economic case for HS2 on Tuesday, hoping to persuade people that building a high speed rail line through the UK is worthwhile, despite the spiralling costs. In ...