{"id":86016,"date":"2018-12-20T13:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T21:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/this-drone-seamlessly-transitions-between-swimming-and-flying"},"modified":"2018-12-20T13:02:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T21:02:27","slug":"this-drone-seamlessly-transitions-between-swimming-and-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/this-drone-seamlessly-transitions-between-swimming-and-flying","title":{"rendered":"This Drone Seamlessly Transitions Between Swimming and Flying"},"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\/FC9EJhs0pc0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t unreasonable to think of <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/tag\/drones\" target=\"_top\">drones<\/a> as pesky technological nuisances. Our modern digital ecosystem regularly infringes on traditional notions of privacy and bombards our limited attention spans with stimuli. A swarm of drones hovering overhead seems like the physical manifestation of these intrusions and distractions. But we shouldn\u2019t swat them away just yet. Drones still have practical utility and the <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/10\/05\/matternet-leads-the-way-in-autonomous-drone-delivery-networks\/\" target=\"_top\">potential to change industries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>An Expanding Market<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The appeal of drones in the consumer market is obvious. They can capture video footage from exciting angles, serving the vanity of a population obsessed with self-documentation. Beyond that, drones also have commercial and civil government applications that include firefighting, farming, construction, deliveries, and insurance claims. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldmansachs.com\/insights\/technology-driving-innovation\/drones\/\" target=\"_top\">Goldman Sachs Research<\/a>, this contributes to a $100 billion market opportunity between 2016 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/v\/s\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/12\/20\/this-drone-seamlessly-transitions-between-swimming-and-flying\/amp\/?amp_js_v=0.1#referrer=https:\/\/www.google.com\">https:\/\/singularityhub-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/v\/s\/singularit...google.com<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn\u2019t unreasonable to think of drones as pesky technological nuisances. Our modern digital ecosystem regularly infringes on traditional notions of privacy and bombards our limited attention spans with stimuli. A swarm of drones hovering overhead seems like the physical manifestation of these intrusions and distractions. But we shouldn\u2019t swat them away just yet. Drones [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1506,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-food","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86016","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}