Despite being integral to aviation for more than a century, propellers have changed remarkably little since the Wright Brothers. A team at MIT’s Lincoln Lab has developed a new propeller shape that ...

Over the years, we've seen a number of drones that are designed to capture other drones. One of the latest, aptly named the Drone Interceptor, utilizes detachable net-pulling propellers to get the job ...

Drone builders have challenges they face with each new design. If the drones are too big, they can't fit into tight spaces where they need to operate. If the drones are too small, they can't carry the ...

Over the past few years, labels such as DJI have pushed drones into the mainstream. If you look closely, you'll notice that a majority of them have four propellers, while helicopters have fewer of ...

Figure 1 shows a bottom-up view of a drone propeller with one collapsible tip. The collapsible propeller tips technology is the latest patent to come out of the Seattle-based company's futuristic ...

In this series, I will be building a single propeller spherical drone which will be controlled via an Arduino. I have designed this drone in Solidworks 3D CAD software and I will be making all of the ...

A drone, or quadcopter as it's technically called, typically has four propellers to generate enough thrust to let it hover in the air. The propellers are arranged in such a way to counterbalance the ...

MIT recently announced its research on toroidal propellers to create quieter drones. That got [Major Hardware] thinking about noisy PC fans. The obvious solution was to adapt the toroidal shape for a ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. When are two propellers better than four? When they give your drone extra battery life, greater portability, ...

There are helicopter drones and fixed-wing drones, but creating a hybrid of both is tricky. Even Parrot's Swing, as clever as it is, needs four propellers and elaborate wings to pull off its stunt.