By next spring, I’m betting at least a few of the selfie-sticks and tripods are going to be replaced by camera drones. In a few weeks, I’ll be attending my son’s high school graduation in Silicon Valley, with, I’m sure, my view obscured by parents using pads and phones and selfie-sticks to record the moment. One-or perhaps more-of these gadgets will catch on. Zero Zero, with founders out of Stanford, has $25 million in funding. Lily, with founders out of UC Berkeley, has $15 million in funding and $34 million in preorders. People are betting big on these companies. The cameras have tracking capabilities so they can keep a subject in sight, and can autonomously hover or circle, as well as take off and land on command without the user having to control the ascent or descent precisely. This March, drone-maker DJI introduced the Phantom 4, with autonomous flying and tracking features that essentially make it that company’s first flying camera at $1400.įlying cameras are drones designed for use by consumers that don’t want to learn how to fly a drone they just want to take pictures. It all started about a year ago, when startup Lily Camera came out of stealth with its $500 to $1000 camera drone and argued that it wasn’t so much a drone as a simple-to-use flying camera. The flying camera is a relatively new type of gadget. The company hasn’t set a price but expects the lightweight drone (it weighs in at 240 grams) to cost under US $600. Startup Zero Zero Robotics just took the wraps off its eye in the sky, the Hover Camera.
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