Autonomous aircraft can carry 500 pounds of cargo

[@DoubleCTech]

I think they made the right choice going with a hybrid system. Solid state batteries are still being developed and lithium batteries don’t have the energy density needed for flight. I think that will change in about a decade through.

[@jimj2683]

Yup, turbine generators running at their optimum rpms also are quite efficient and burn really cleanly compared to piston engines.

[@Leo-sd3jt]

@Global Ez not holding liquid stuff. So basically most batteries that aren't old style car batteries

[@WilliamPitcher]

The past tense of, "There once was a cartoon" made me feel old.

[@alexandrebijaoui6814]

You old tho

[@maartentoors]

My money is on: 1- Humanitarian aid (fingers crossed) 2- Military use (more probable) This will not (in my opinion) be delivering consumer products.

[@rizizum]

I think the last one will aplicable once the technology gets cheap and realible enough

[@BendsSpace]

I can see it being used in places like Alaska: they already have small planes doing consumer deliveries there, and this is probably cheaper (and low risk since it's so rural).

[@k4rty72]

Wow! Looks cooool! 🔥🔥

[@waynecmontgomery]

I also see this technology being used by the United States Post Office. This will help the Post Office improve delivery times and take trucks off the road when it comes to remote post offices reciving large and small volumes of mail thats going to remote locations.

[@thegiggler2]

The post office is not exactly associated with 'latest' or 'new'

[@danielburdette6648]

I've always loved the concept of a flying car. I remember the little compact car that towed its wings behind it. This one makes much more sense!

[@etneb20yorme47]

All weather drone? Day and night?

[@heathcwalker]

We need a 250mph 1000mi range 2 passenger hybrid drone.

[@Kbreed10k]

Incredible and interesting 🧐

[@azad1718]

Turkey already supplied five VTOL drone capable of carrying 500 pounds to a British company.

[@TheLegendOfNiko]

Song name at the beginning?

[@htxsupercrewon22s]

Cartels placing orders right now

[@spacepeing9936]

Conveniently it can also carry enough explosive to brought down a regular home itself

[@rizizum]

So can an airplane

[@MVP0840]

220 kg of explosive can take out a whole building much bigger than a regular home.

[@onelegd1]

It already sounds noisy. How noises is it?

[@THEUNKNOWNSONOFJFK1]

Benz had the 1st one... Very cool I think... We need this so bad... Can't get a flight for that interview... Take your Car with Wings !!!

[@JOEL6780]

Looks like even more Job replacement what will people do in the future?

[@mrbamfo5000]

Not drive.

[@airgunningyup]

Yea, theyre gonna hit it big.. Last mile delivery is a huge cost , and the trucking system in the US is currently broken.

[@mohdsuhaimi9433]

Love to know more about this technology.

[@thegiggler2]

Cargo is a good way to go to prove technologies especially as you're not carrying people and have many fewer safety issues.

[@epp6681]

It would be cool if while landing it transforms into a robot to deliver the package, cool and terrifying.

[@dr3ad976]

Interesting.

[@DannerBanks]

Great name

[@dhirendersahani2544]

Wow thats awesome 👌

[@Cryptonymicus]

Video says 300 miles. Description says 500 miles.

[@Mr..Roboto]

Looks really cool….. can the cargo be opened midair? This drone would be awesome to use for forest fires

[@robertbone3064]

I like their concept and using what looks like a small turbine engine to extend the range and payload. This is an idea I've talked to people about. Even a small weed eater motor driving a 500 amp alternator recharging a battery bank in flight would work quite well. Now they say this unit can carry 500 lbs so make a two place personal aircraft. Keep thinking ahead men.

[@RJ-se9op]

Please refresh yourself on the correct use of “there”.

[@blessingz]

This is next level

[@Slimdagremlin]

Welp these things will be taking the jobs of delivery drivers eventually. 😔

[@mrbamfo5000]

Absolutely coming. Any driving jobs, except maybe racing will be eliminated in the near future. As soon as self driving vehicles are safe and reliable, bye, bye, truckers, cab and Uber drivers, delivery people, etc., etc., etc.

[@rishabh645]

@@mrbamfo5000 pilots also will not be eliminated u can't risk the lives of 200-300 people in a passenger plane on a computer . the work of pilots will get a lot easier tho

[@iambrige9866]

These delivery systems are great, but unfortunately I don't have much faith in humanity to keep these going. I can see them being shot out of the sky and torn apart, or stolen. Just look what happened to the traveling robot several years ago.

[@sherrimoquin5553]

Do you think CNET knows that where you said those kinds of drones can be shot out of the sky or stolen?

[@rishabh645]

it might work in Scandinavian countries

[@dustinbrandel59]

This is awesome, but the coffin sized package makes me feel weird.

[@judeogbonna9884]

Lol

[@eastmanwebb5477]

Call me when there’s no fossil fuel involved.

[@LordKibly]

Impending mass unemployment is gonna be so epic

[@thaatsriight]

None sense. Machines will do jobs that humans aren’t suited to do or don’t want to do, and people will focus on other types of work such as creative tasks and services

[@riketscience]

At around 30s you said it can "land in and fifty square foot landing area." do you realise that is just over 7x7 feet ("49 square foot"). When making a video like this is is important to promote your facts correctly. 50 feet squared would indicate an area of 50x50ft, in other words "2500 square foot" and that is more likely what you are alluding to. The drone itself is far wider than 7'

[@crazzylee]

I think a better airfoil should be implemented

[@EricTheRed06]

Or it can drop 500lbs. 😨

[@henrycolling4819]

This is very important and. Being of something new. And. Could be a. Mark. For. This. Stuff

[@DipperDK]

ABC

[@csmith9684]

The skies will become very busy in the next 10-20 yrs

[@cgourin]

So, it's a fuel heli/plane with electrique transmission (not really efficient). It looks cool but isn't really ground breaking. It applies to a very specific narrow market, need, to be by air but not quite helicopter, regulations with good reasons will make it complicated to operate a metric ton of metal with a fuel tank and a flamable battery that can fall from the sky.

[@Scorpiogirl_1029]

These cargo drones would definitely reduce a lot of CO2 in the air from delivery vans, trucks and other types of cars that are on the road today. Very impressive.

[@oO0Xenos0Oo]

I dont think so. 500 pounds is not much at all. This can be carried by any car, no need for trucks. The benefit of it is beeing fast and needing no operator. Also as they sad it can work in remote areas with bad roads. But a small plane carriing just 500 pounds will not be more fuel efficient than cars and especially not trucks. You would need a fleet of 80 drones to replace one big Truck.

[@Scorpiogirl_1029]

@@oO0Xenos0Oo Good point. Stil pretty cool.

[@Leo-sd3jt]

@@oO0Xenos0Oo Trucks are great for long distances. I think the idea is that trucks deliver the cargo to outside of a city hub. Then these drones can deliver multiple package to different distribution points within a city or to neighboring towns to sites where ground couriers will pick it up and do the last mile drop off. Also this is great for moving stuff from a warehouse to a distribution point. Trucks are not great for moving within a city. This is more of a cargo van that's not limited by traffic. I should look into whether these can land and take off vertically since they'll be quite limited in their take-off/landing spots if they can't.

[@Kurumi_6_10th]

"WTF"

[@gianpaolovillani6321]

Work is for human people, not robots.

[@nikobelic4251]

This thing will be remotely piloted It will probably create more jobs

[@silverstake88]

"We didn't want this aircraft to be waiting around to be unloaded, waiting to be loaded - just pick up and go" Too bad logistics can't do that for us truckers. Oh, right - truckers aren't human - they're "sub-human." 🙄

[@neosrt10]

Cool buy way too big for city use.

[@sonjatheierl1]

And can do better than usps thats for sure. If i did as bad a job as our local post office anybody rlse would be let go.

[@mrbamfo5000]

Mail delivery issues are largely due to one party in congress trying to kill the post office for the last couple of decades. They made the post office front load their pension plan, nobody else has to do that, and it put them billions of dollars in the hole. Most people don't realize the post office isn't funded through government taxes, They're independent and funded by postal rates.. So if they're running huge deficits, there are only so many things you can do to right the ship. Rate hikes, aging infrastructure, slower delivery. It's a long term plan they're executing to get public opinion to become negative enough where they can privatize it. The same party has been running this same plan against the government since the 80s. When you're constantly demonizing the government and cutting funding for programs time and time again to where they finally get it where it doesn't function well they can advocate getting rid of it.

[@Sela2125]

I can see this being massively helpful in counties around the world where the road infrastructure is not as extensive as the US. There are many populations centers around the world that are virtually cut off from the main transit systems and this could help shorten the logistical issues that scenario presents. With a payload like that, depending on the cost, I can envision this being an early step in bringing communities in deeply isolated locations closer. Certainly it isn't a 100% solutions, there would be noise concerns, accounting for burning fuel and so on, but I'm glad to see this sort of innovation.

[@matthewviramontes3131]

This is cool, but it's not for your average delivery like pizza, groceries or packages. I'm a pizza delivery driver and I can tell you for a fact that most people don't have 50 square feet of open space for this thing to land. Even on streets sometimes there's not space because cars are parked there or it's a thin road.

[@frankreynolds9930]

Well this doesn't do individual deliveries so doesn't matter if people have space or not, it's being used for warehouse hub delivery.

[@shaggys1057]

500 pound drone flying over residential areas at low altitudes? The Faa says no

[@martinacuna7869]

Cool.

[@kevintkeefe]

Drug traffickers are gonna love this. Book it.

[@mrbamfo5000]

They already use drones. They're kind of a try everything kind of group. Tunnels, mules, boats, trucks, cars, sling shots, you name it. Oh, I forgot submarines.

[@prostytroll]

Morons everywhere... or maybe not. This drone can fly over any size homeless encampment and keep parcels safe from train thieves. Great!

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thats a lot of weed

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[@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488]

Oh good, it'll be able to drop.bombs too.

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I'll pass....💨

[@LiveWellUkraine]

I think this man has never been to a busy commercial warehouse. If he doesn't want his drone waiting at each stop... he will not be able to use the current transportation networks. Bottlenecks!!! Def do proof of concept elsewhere.

[@vincentredden5964]

Bad for the environment, we're in a time where we're facing frequent hurricanes and fires caused by the global warming why can't it be fully electric

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[@Art_bor]

Seems it will die some years

[@Fireddoctor]

Trucks are better

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[@thebigdoghimself]

Sorry but the cost per flight is going to be prohibitive. Might be good for delivery of human organs to hospitals as cost isn't as much of an issue there.