New fully autonomous drone Hover 2 is very popular on Kickstarter. The campaign is already far above its goal and it goes on till 30th December. The drone offers many interesting autonomous features and its stabilized 4K camera has some promising specs. Autonomous Future for Drones Modern drones almost always feature some level of autonomous flying or at least partially autonomous smart features. There are, however, not that many fully autonomous drones yet. You might still remember the Skydio R1 autonomous drone, which was also released this year (links to our initial release article and firmware update announcement). My colleague Nino has the drone for testing and his review will be online within the next weeks, watch out for that. The Skydio R1 is however still quite pricey at $1,999.00. The newly presented Hover 2 should be significantly cheaper and its specs look quite promising. Hover 2 The company behind this drone is called Zero Zero Robotics and was founded in 2014 in California. Their first product was the Hover Camera Passport drone. It already offered some autonomous features and very compact foldable form factor. In the second generation – Hover 2 – autonomous flying has been expanded and further developed. They now run a Kickstarter campaign for the Hover 2 and already managed to raise almost ten times the financing goal. There is still enough time to back the product as the campaign goes on till 30th December. The new drone features the same folding design as the first...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 11 December, 2018