{"id":131274,"date":"2021-11-26T03:24:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T11:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/dronut-x1-drone-keeps-its-rotors-safely-inside-its-body"},"modified":"2021-11-26T03:24:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T11:24:31","slug":"dronut-x1-drone-keeps-its-rotors-safely-inside-its-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/dronut-x1-drone-keeps-its-rotors-safely-inside-its-body","title":{"rendered":"Dronut X1 drone keeps its rotors safely inside its body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sa6BsgTEPbI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a cool concept; the blades cant get caught, or stuck, or broken. but, it\u2019s pretty loud, there\u2019s no audio in the demo videos. Still, i think a flying drone would be superior for exploring underground structurers and caves, til it hit a door or something anyways. Anyhow, i think the flight system should focus on some kind of a total silence ion drive.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It was three years ago that we first heard about the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/cleo-drone\/53395\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Cleo<\/a>, a robust, donut-shaped prototype drone made by Cleo Robotics. Well, its successor is now commercially available, under the new (and apt) name of the Dronut X1.<\/p>\n<p>Like its predecessor, the Dronut X1 features just <i>two<\/i> counter-rotating rotors stacked one above the other. While we have seen <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/drones\/spirit-cylindrical-modular-drone\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">other drones<\/a> that take this approach, Cleo Robotics goes the extra step of enclosing those rotors within a composite ducted body. This means that they can\u2019t harm bystanders, nor can they <i>be<\/i> harmed when bumping into obstacles such as walls.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company, the X1 is designed for applications such as inspection and reconnaissance within cramped and\/or GPS-denied environments. It\u2019s Wi-Fi-controlled via a joystick remote and an Android app, although it can autonomously hold its position, and it can avoid obstacles with some help from an onboard 3D <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lidar\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">LiDAR<\/a> sensor. Steering is managed through a proprietary thrust vectoring system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a cool concept; the blades cant get caught, or stuck, or broken. but, it\u2019s pretty loud, there\u2019s no audio in the demo videos. Still, i think a flying drone would be superior for exploring underground structurers and caves, til it hit a door or something anyways. Anyhow, i think the flight system should focus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,418,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-internet","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}