{"id":96844,"date":"2019-09-30T17:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T00:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/flying-replacement-batteries-could-massively-boost-a-drones-flight-time"},"modified":"2019-09-30T17:03:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T00:03:54","slug":"flying-replacement-batteries-could-massively-boost-a-drones-flight-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/flying-replacement-batteries-could-massively-boost-a-drones-flight-time","title":{"rendered":"Flying Replacement Batteries Could Massively Boost a Drone\u2019s Flight Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P6XvhTe1Rdo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Borrowing a trick from the Air Force, whose planes can complete long-range missions thanks to in-flight refueling from tanker aircraft, researchers at UC Berkeley showed off a novel way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P6XvhTe1Rdo&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keep small drones in the air<\/a> almost indefinitely: <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/drones\/swappable-flying-batteries-keep-drones-aloft-almost-forever?utm_source=feedburner-automaton&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ieeespectrum%2Fautomaton+(Automaton+-+IEEE+Spectrum)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flying replacement batteries<\/a> that can be swapped without landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borrowing a trick from the Air Force, whose planes can complete long-range missions thanks to in-flight refueling from tanker aircraft, researchers at UC Berkeley showed off a novel way to keep small drones in the air almost indefinitely: flying replacement batteries that can be swapped without landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96844","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=96844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}