Rob Verger is the Technology Editor at Popular Science, where he leads a team of journalists who cover everything from artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and cybersecurity to privacy, security, and the military.
This bizarre-looking flying machine is an ultralight aircraft called the Black Fly, and it holds precisely one person. The company that makes it, Pivotal, recently changed their name from Opener. They plan to start selling a similar model to this one, called Helix, which will cost $190,000. The operator doesn’t need to be a pilot, and the small aircraft also has an emergency parachute. The eight propellers and two wings allow it to fly, and it can travel for about 20 miles or 20 minutes.
This small robotic helicopter is roughly 22 feet long, 7.5 feet high, and is called the Mosquito. It’s a development aircraft for a company called Rain that’s working on software to snuff out wildfires early. “We’re building technology to stop wildfires before they grow out of control, when they’re the size of a single tree, not when they’re the size of a warzone,” says Maxwell Brodie, the CEO of Rain. They’re collaborating with Sikorsky, which has already developed the tech for a.
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