{"id":75185,"date":"2018-01-12T00:43:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T08:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/tomorrows-cargo-drones-wont-look-much-like-todays-helicopters"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T01:02:13","slug":"tomorrows-cargo-drones-wont-look-much-like-todays-helicopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/tomorrows-cargo-drones-wont-look-much-like-todays-helicopters","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow\u2019s Cargo Drones Won\u2019t Look Much Like Today\u2019s Helicopters"},"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\/xqwS7CcjA28?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Boeing unveils a squarish, skeletal quadcopter to try out new unmanned-delivery concepts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boeing\u2019s newest prototype drone is a skeletal<\/strong>, squarish quadrotor built as a \u201cflying test bed to mature the building blocks of autonomous technology for future applications,\u201d the aircraft maker said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Measuring 15 feet wide and 18 long, the Cargo Air Vehicle represents Boeing\u2019s next step in its quest for next-generation vertical-takeoff-and-landing drones. Last year, the company acquired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2016\/09\/tomorrows-laser-armed-helicopter-drones\/131665\/\">Aurora Flight Sciences<\/a>, one year after the Virginia-based company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2016\/03\/check-out-militarys-experimental-helicopter-plane\/126432\/\">established itself as one of the most interesting in the field<\/a> by winning DARPAs VTOL X-Plane competition.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2018\/01\/Boeing-Experimenting-with-Cargo-Drones\/145108\/\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2018\/01\/Boeing-Experime...es\/145108\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing unveils a squarish, skeletal quadcopter to try out new unmanned-delivery concepts. Boeing\u2019s newest prototype drone is a skeletal, squarish quadrotor built as a \u201cflying test bed to mature the building blocks of autonomous technology for future applications,\u201d the aircraft maker said in a statement. Measuring 15 feet wide and 18 long, the Cargo Air [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75185","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\/75185","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=75185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75255,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75185\/revisions\/75255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}