Singapore students build drone for people , personal flying machine

Not the jet pack I long dreamed about owning when was a kid but perhaps just as cool , the personal flying machine has taken its time to arrive but the dawning of a new era of personal freedom may be on the horizon with this solar powered drone for people built by researchers in Singapore , they say the flying machine is marketable and will probably go into production in the near future , why should GoPro cameras get all the fun !


I want mine in red.

Cool video, and invention.

In the past several years here on ATS, there's been a number of different inventions of similar goals, however, I don't see these coming into the hands of civilians any time soon simply because there's such a conflict with legal flying air space, unfortunately. I would say that an automated system may be required before civilians can get their hands on a personal flying vehicle.

THIS is our future. Finally. I'm loving it.!

It's funny I had a talk with my brother in law about how technology is advancing so fast we might be able to fly personal drones. I told him it'd be cool if they made a drone backpack that would fly us. He said it would make people more lazier haha. Now this is what I never knew would happen.

I'd love to get one of those to commute to work rather than having to take a combination of buses, trains and ferries.

a reply to: gortex

When I saw the title, I thought straight away is this what i think it is, if you got drones flying around, why not build drones big enough to carry people??

makes sense to me although I bet the costs to begin with wil be skyhigh unfortunately.

a reply to: gortex

In fact, after watching the video, its just another one of these but without the fuel!

Have you ever heard of the WASP X Jet?

It's one of my favourite things ever, really wish I had one. It was nicknamed the "flying pulpit" because that is what it looks like.

It can go up to 10,000 feet.



Here's a shorter video:



So cool!

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If FAA is cracking down on the small drones what do you think they will do with these large ones ?