Future Military Drone Wows Many In Japan

Thursday, October 27, 2011




Video: Flying Sphere-Shaped Drone Wows Crowds In Tokyo -- Popular Science

We got our first look at Japan's Defense Ministry's spherical flying machine earlier this year, but at a recent technology expo in Tokyo the hovering ball got the full coming-out treatment, complete with public demos eliciting "ooohs" and "aaaahs." The video below shows the drone doing everything it was designed to do: zipping around omnidirectionally, rolling across the floor, and staying aloft even when it strikes--or is struck by--an obstacle.

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My Comment: Personal confession ... I am wowed by this demonstration. Science fiction is now reality. Expect this drone .... or sometime like it .... become standard issue (budgets permitting) for the military in a few years.
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