• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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    27 days ago

    It looks like a pretty capable drone, but it still has a service ceiling 2,800m lower than the peak. Though I imagine most of the garbage is at lower altitudes, but the base camps are still near the service ceiling.

    Sadly, it only has a 30kg payload so it seems Green Boots is staying put.

    • krellor
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      2527 days ago

      I mean, they have drones with saws for cutting tree limbs now. When you have a big problem, start by cutting it into smaller individual problems…

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        3727 days ago

        “Your honor I didn’t desecrate that corpse. I merely wrote an algorithm that caused drones to desecrate that corpse”

    • BarqsHasBite
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      27 days ago

      DJI FlyCart 30

      I can’t ever take the word perilous seriously.

      Pretty cool, worth the watch. They don’t show the size very well, with arms folded in fits in the back of a pickup. 30 kg with one battery, 40 kg with 2 batteries, hot swap battery, 16 km range, 20 m/s (72 km/h), 6000 m ceiling, record and repeat flight paths.

      Looks like they think the chinese delivery market will be huge.

    • @[email protected]
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      727 days ago

      They moved his body 10 years ago. Still on the mountain but I’d guess not many people know where he is anymore.

  • @[email protected]
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    2627 days ago

    I’m impressed that these drones can operate on Everest, especially carrying a payload. I would assume the air density would be too low for the rotors to generate sufficient lift.

    • Troy
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      2827 days ago

      I don’t think this will be operating at the peak. But, as the martian helicopter has shown, low air density is just an engineering problem :)