DARPA UAV Forge Challenge – Contestant Number 3

Continuing the review of contestants in the DARPA UAVForge Challenge – a contest to use crowd-sourcing to build small UAS through an exchange of ideas and design practices – this video presents the Quadrocopter Microdrone.

The Microdrone is a kamikaze drone equipped with miniguns, an infrared laser beam, and Xbox Kinect-style cameras to map out the landscape. It will self-destruct if compromised. It aspires to be able to get close enough to a terrorist to spray a substance and then be able to track the sprayed target with a special camera. There’s an app for it. It’s controlled by a remote control that can be hooked up to an iPad.

Sources: YouTube, Wired Danger Room

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