{"id":134237,"date":"2022-01-18T09:52:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/kawasakis-supercharged-cargo-copter-tests-robotic-ground-crew"},"modified":"2022-01-18T09:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:52:37","slug":"kawasakis-supercharged-cargo-copter-tests-robotic-ground-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/kawasakis-supercharged-cargo-copter-tests-robotic-ground-crew","title":{"rendered":"Kawasaki\u2019s supercharged cargo copter tests robotic ground crew"},"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\/vkbkoWFNVEE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kawasaki has shoehorned the supercharged 1,000cc engine from its wild <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/kawasaki-h2r-supercharged-300-horsepower-h2\/34039\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">H2R hyperbike<\/a> into a heavy-lift autonomous cargo helicopter, and has now demonstrated a robotic system for loading and unloading it without exposing humans to those big blades.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/aircraft\/kawasaki-k-racer-unmanned-helicopter\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">K-Racer X1<\/a> is a beast of a drone, roughly the size of a small car. It rises vertically on a helicopter-style top rotor, but where there\u2019s normally a tail rotor to balance out torque, this machine uses two forward-facing props mounted at the end of stubby wings. These props double as forward propulsion, with the wings providing some lift.<\/p>\n<p>Kawasaki is yet to specify how fast this thing will fly, but we doubt it\u2019ll be too quick; assuming that top rotor keeps spinning in cruise flight, top speed will be limited by retreating blade stall, which causes asymmetric lift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kawasaki has shoehorned the supercharged 1,000cc engine from its wild H2R hyperbike into a heavy-lift autonomous cargo helicopter, and has now demonstrated a robotic system for loading and unloading it without exposing humans to those big blades. The K-Racer X1 is a beast of a drone, roughly the size of a small car. It rises [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134237","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}