Parrot Bebop Drone & New Mini Drone Concept Devices - CES 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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as well as hyperx so we're here in the parrot Booth
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where they're showing off their latest bbop drone this thing is a whole other
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Beast it makes the AR Drone 2.0 look like an absolute toy it's got eight
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times the power on its CPU it's got a quad core GPU it's got 8 gigs of onboard
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storage it's got a 14 megapixel 1080p camera camera it's got a 180° fisheye
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style lens but they're doing some special Tom Foolery with the uh with the
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image to make sure that horizontal lines don't get distorted it has an array of
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sensors that again makes the AR Drone 2.0 look like kind of bad so it's got a
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vertical camera it's also got an ultrasonic sensor it's got a pressure
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sensor that takes over once the ultrasonic sensor loses its range at I
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think it's about 8 m high but no one's looking at me ultrasonic goes around 8 m
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High cor okay oh okay sorry excuse me so
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it's the high-speed camera and the ultrasonic sensor under about 5 m and
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then going above that is the pressure sensor it is extremely lightweight it's
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very robust feeling the whole thing comes apart and this thing they are
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showing off some unbelievable video footage and all of
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their marketing materials for this bad boy thanks to the image stabilization
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that's available with it so looking at sort of the typical shaky camera versus
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what this guy can do is amazing and it's not just about the image quality either
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the stability of this thing in Flight is unbelievable the demo that they're
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running here has this bizarre like
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surreal almost looking choreographed dance and they had something like eight
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or nine Bops out there flying around in a little cage doing flipping over doing
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all kinds of crazy stuff this thing looks bananas so you'll get around I
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believe it's 200 M on your smartphone
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250 M range on your smartphone or your tablet if you're controlling it directly
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cuz it still works with the same free flight app that we've seen before well
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by by same I mean significantly improved or if you pick up their new controller
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you can go ahead and throw your phone or your tablet into that and you get full
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joystick controls like well really anyone who wants to have much finer a
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much finer degree of control over the Drone would want to have but there's
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another benefit as well it actually comes with a wireless range extender so
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you can take that 250 M range and extend it to 2 kilm and while okay you're not
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going to necessarily get a perfect video feed if the thing is to freaking
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kilometers away flying around getting aerial footage but the good news is that
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the onboard camera will record correctly even if that feed is not necessarily
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correct now another cool thing is they're already talking about support
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for the Oculus so you can act you can literally fly around in the air in
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virtually R in Virtual reality with this device it comes with a couple of
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batteries but I I guess it better at the price this bad boy is not cheap what do
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it run about $500 US $500 US yeah but I
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definitely want one I'm looking right at you guys both of you we got to try this
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out that pretty much does it for the bbop I guess I did miss that there's GPS
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so if you program a flight path that'll help it to return home and whoa I think
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my uh my next subject here has come in
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for a landing okay I'm going help you out so this is the rolling spider this
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is actually a prototype right now this this particular model of it is not yet
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released you can see it's actually got headlamps so this is obviously a much
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smaller more uh more you know kid-friendly toy friendly fun friendly
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drone very very robust so it can fly
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without its Wheels like this or it can actually be equipped with large wheels
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that will not only protect the propellers but also allow you to land it
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roll it around along the ground take it off again and do all kinds of fun stuff
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with it the battery runs for about 8 minutes and what's cool about this one
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is that it's got a lot of the same Technologies as the larger drone so you
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still fly it with free flight 3.0 it's still got an ultrasonic sensor on the
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bottom as well as a bottom mounted camera that it uses for stability in
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order to keep it from drifting all over the place which can also take snapshots
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but this one I wish I could tell you what the other things that are cool about it are but parrot won't tell me so
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by the time this comes out later this year they're saying there are some
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secrets that uh will make it even cooler
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than it already is so I think that's
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pretty much it for drones for us here at parot I do want to do a quick shout oh
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okay okay they apparently they're going to bom bombard me with this thing
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oh this is the Jumping Sumo and this one right here is actually a prototype now
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we showed this before the first time they demoed it but the difference now is
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that aside from being super lightweight super robust it's got a camera on the
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front so you can spin it around in circles drive it around on your furniture all that kind of stuff now it
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has some ruggedness improvement so the wheels are now they now have almost like
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claws on them as they roll forward and they have added a spine to the back that
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they're saying allows it to climb even stairs so it actually will be able to
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keep from tipping backwards over on itself and climb upstairs so uh looking
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forward to playing around with this one as well all right now I think we're done
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with the uh with the drones here at the parrot Booth guys I do want to thank our
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