A couple of days back, Intel unveiled a tiny new drone, the Shooting Star, designed specifically for entertainment light shows. And Intel's drone is already making headlines by setting a new Guinness World Record.
"With this drone, we will be able to demonstrate that drone light shows can redefine entertainment and create amazing new experiences in the night sky," Anil Nanduri, Intel's VP of New Technology Group, wrote in a blog post.
An individual pilot flew 500 Shooting Star drones simultaneously in early October, breaking the Guinness Book of World Records for most drones operated at once by a single pilot. Simultaneously. it beat a previous record of 100 set by itself in 2015. The flight took place in a small town outside of Munich, Germany, where Intel received a waiver from local regulators to perform the record-breaking flight.
Each drone is packed with full-color-range LED lights. The drones fly with the help of Intel's automation software, which allows artists to design aerial animations with hundreds of drones. It's the type of coordination that would typically take weeks or months, but Intel says its system can design a complex light show in days.
If you may remember last month, Intel unveiled the Intel Falcon 8+ System at the 2016 INTERGEO drone conference in Hamburg, Germany. The Falcon 8+ is the company's first commercial multirotor drone for the United States market.
Intel is better known in the drone industry for its collision avoidance camera technology, Real Sense, which is used in its industrial-grade Falcon 8 drone, as well as Yuneec's Typhoon H drone. The system allows drones to weave between obstacles without being piloted, but the new Shooting Star drones aren't equipped with Real Sense. Instead, the drones are completely controlled by the master computer and operator on the ground. The drones don't communicate with each other either, so they're not a swarm, but are rather radio controlled.
Earlier this week, Intel also disclosed the acquisition of Germany-based drone specialists MAVinci GmbH to expand its capabilities in the growing drone industry. The tech multinational believe drones are an important computing platform for the future.
"I see a future where fireworks and all of their risks of smoke, dirt are a thing of the past, and they're replaced by shows that have unlimited creativity and potential - and powered by drones," Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said at this year's CES.
Source: Intel Newsroom
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