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This company's PR team is doing incredible work getting all this type of coverage out of a 0/2 track record with a design everyone else seems to think is obviously flawed.


What’s the prevailing criticism? High COG?


It's tall and narrow and falls over when it hits the ground moving fast. Irritating for intuitive machines whose stance is that mass is not uniformly distributed and center of mass is already low enough to make flight control somewhat challenging.

The criticism should perhaps be that the laser range finders are clearly a liability and a robust/workable backup for telling how far away the ground is needs to be brought along.


hey man we made it on the rock and checked the weather thats cool right




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