Adam Savage Tests High-Speed Cameras with @theslowmoguys !

Can he please stop saying “sort of”. And starting every sentence “with Yeah so..”. Every CEO under 50 talks the same lol

How much does this vtol cost?

I think delivery drones are a cool concept, like there are some super amazing use possibilities for stuff like this

Science Humans are absolutely incredible

so how does it defend from an EMP? seems like a huge vulnerability.

I really do not want to see any of these flying around town. In the City the sky is the only thing we haven't taken over an ruin, and I can already see these thing buzzing outside our windows at 4AM just because someone wanted a Cheeseburger. 😓

I'm not sure I want this to take off in urban areas. The noise pollution is very high. Now even when somebody flies a small camera drone in the neighbourhood, it causes noise pollution to many people.

And the risks to privacy. if you gain access to the camera feed flying over gardens ect no thank you.

Easy solution would be stop trying to big them up calling them planes, and instead use the correct term of drone, drones don't need seatbelts fitted.

"very robust system"
You mean way over-regulated, Adam.

Wow! There is some seriously cool engineering going on out there! What ingenuity!

If you do something right, you aren't afraid to show it. Many companies could learn from this.

I love this! Interestingly "people over plane " but only tested it hitting concrete ! No dummy tests?

Imagine being that CEO, reaching out to someone you've admired for over 2 decades. And you get free slow motion footage to give your engineers too.

Great video great company. I only comment is I think the camera man should wear pants it’s a little obscene watching him as is lol

i'm sad that yet another of my ideas is being beat to the punch by people with money. but i'm still interested in seeing where other people's realized ideas intersect with mine. such as the design of that drone. you can see the genius behind its design where the 2 fuselage pylons provide a great stable platform for the vertical rotors to work from, while also not being aerodynamically in the way when it's flying like a plane. such as X or # shaped drones that don't have a plane mode. and while most people would've thought to make tilt rotor designs like an osprey, those have more points of failure and less redundancy that can save itself when things go wrong. it'd also more likely be a heavier construction with bigger motors, blades, and actuating parts to handle the loads of transforming (despite being a much cooler looking design admittedly) safety for people on the ground is by far the most important thing. imagine one of these crashing down on a baby in a stroller. being made of such light material and designed to break so easily, it WILL hurt the baby of course, but not nearly as much as 11 pounds falling from the sky COULD. a bump or bruise vs a permanently disfiguring injury. but despite that importance, they still managed to make a pretty cool looking drone. reminds me of one of my favorite planes, the P-38. however i think there are still some ways to improve its design. both for safety and aero efficiency, but maybe some day i can be a competitor so i shouldn't just be giving out ideas for free. however safety being so important for everybody, i will share that. if the drone detects total control loss and is falling, i'd have pyrotechnic blow out bolts holding everything together, with specific shear points etched into the styro body as well as easy snap clips for all electric cables so nothing is holding it together when those bolts pop. that way it can self destruct in mid air and harmlessly rain down like confetti. every motor, wing, beams, and the battery all falling separately, with the battery itself having an instant blow up air cushion around it so it bounces off whatever it hits, because the battery is the heaviest part and that alone falling onto someone can cause a lot of damage. putting it in a big bouncy beach ball type of cushion would stop that though. (this would increase the weight of the craft, but would be worth it)

An awful lot of thought and careful engineering has gone into the development of the Wing drone. I wonder though how do they mitigate against devices operating in the same potentially congested environment from other unrelated operators? Will there be some kind of positioning repository for devices to announce their location, speed and direction in order to prevent collisions?

If they end up having to put tiny seatbelts in them then they need to add little figurines in there as well and give them all names. Then you'll get an alert on your phone that "Space Cowboy" has delivered your package and there's a photo of the face of the toy figure in the drone for their profile.

thanks Adam for giving us these nostalgic moments!

Ok, so planes need seatbelts... You're clearly flying a drone, not an airplane 🤦

Door dash about to be put out of bussiness

Outstanding example of a company leaning into the future while keeping it's engineering and design firmly based in reality. Way to go guys! I really thought that unpiloted delivery could never wok. Not so sure now. I would invest in Wings. They really seem to have a plan... not a concept of a plan :)

auh and um i dont know what these words mean?

Hmm... I wonder if the seatbelt has to be a certain size... or... if it can be a tiny seat inside the drone somewhere, with a tiny seatbelt on it, with a tiny human figurine sitting in the seat strapped in by the tiny seatbelt, and if that would satisfy that rule that airplanes have to have seatbelts in them. XD

What makes this an airplane not a drone?

Cool idea, but when he said, "... what it will look like to have hundreds of planes in the air, " my interest immediately shut down. I'm not at all interested or excited to see or hear hundreds of those things littering the sky. 😢

Gavin just keeps showing up on other channels I watch. Kentucky Ballistics and now Tested

From all the drone delivery projects shown over the last years this guy sounds the most promising, mostly because he is passionate about flying.
But if you ask me, the "normal" delivery way, you know with a driver and a car or a scooter will be very hard to replace. And it shouldn't be replaced.
I worked as a delivery guy, delivering food for 2 years on a scooter, a 125 cc scooter.
And i also am an RC hobbyist. When i started building RC airplanes i was very attracted to the idea to build it myself, to experiment. So i studied the parts, i learned you need a radio and reciver servos, motors, motor controlers. Then i had to study a bit of aerodynamics learn how to actually make a piece of foam fly. That was like 15 years ago. By the time flytest were just starting with their ytube channel.
And what i quickly realised, since i loved the idea of electric motors was that the lipo batteries that are generaly used in electric RC model planes are the only limitation to everything that has an engine in it to change the world.
lithium-ion polymer battery is an amaizing invention, but if you want to compare the density of regular fuel, it is still far to compete. Meaning same weight of diesel has far more energy packed than a lipo battery. The advantage is the lipo can be recharged and reused, the diesl once is burned is gone.
But even so, the lithium batteries, and i am far from being an expert in this, are also limited. With every cycle of charge and discharge their capacity drops. Meaning after each cycle the battery will be depleted faster with less energy.
Lithium batteries are not cheap. A battery pack for a single drone probably cost around 300 dolars.
These drones will only be able to operate on short distances.
I remember when i worked as a delivery guy on scooter, sometimes i would pick up like 3-4 orders at once, go to the closes one first and so on. One of these drones is not able to do this.
I am speaking here about food delivery because at the moment, with current battery technology, the only thing these drones would be fit for, is that. These drones cannot carry heavy weights over long distances.
Is very cool to see this, but, in the real world, this is just a fancy way of doing delivery.
The only way i could see these drones to really take off, would be with a much better battery wich currently does not exist, or is not on the market. And if one of this drones could carry at least 10kg of weight over minimum of 10km and back.
At the current technology, if a drone does this, it needs a battery recharge for every delivery it makes. I don't think people understand how rare the things in these batteries are and how limited, much much more than fosil fuel are. If these drones replace the entire delivery system around the world, it would burn through batteries, meaning using a battery untill the battery is unusable, like nothing else, more than cars. Because these batteries are small, need to be small so the airplane can function, meaning more charge and discharge cycles, much more often than an electric car, meaning the battery will degrade much more faster.
Unless we find a much better way to make batteries, much cleaner and sustainable way. These drones are just not worth it.
Yes the technology is amaizing, the fact that are completely autonomous, it's fascinating. But the real drawback are the batteries.
And there is also the fact these drones will replace alot of human jobs. Thing wich already happened in china and this is why there is so much chaos with their economy now.
For me all this is fascinating and makes me act like a child just like Adam, mostly because i love these stuff.
But i don't think we are there yet, in a place where everything can be controlled by AI and i don't think we should be there.
We live in a world where most of the technology around us, is alien tech. We have no clue how it is made, who makes it, how it works. We have become so dependent on things we don't understand. And this is wrong.

Are you guys flying over NJ by any chance?? Just asking for a friend..😂😂😂😂😂😂

This felt SO much like an episode of Mythbusters, with the build up, the science, even the voice over. If this was narrated not by Adam, but by the original voice actor, this would have been RIGHT at home in a episode. Format/feeling wise, oc.

It's funny that some people when they talk about Gavin Free think slow-mo, but I think about Minecraft and throwing "MoonBalls" at his co-workers. LOL!

Oooo... He's wearing the hat... Oooo...

Thanks wings for sharing your development process. The bonus to you is public confidence in your service. The bonus to the future of drone/public entanglement is that you are adapting the safety compliance knowledge to the benefit of all. And an extra salute to your operation is that you don’t appear to have squandered investment funds on flash overheads and executive extortion.

Not to be disrespectful but this drones are a joke.... as per efficiency point of view. Having sooooo many motors used ONLY for vertical takeoff and then being just a death weight and to "provide" additional air resistance a.k.a. drag, well... just not serious. There are technics like tilting rotors etc. to use motors not only for flying but also for hovering. Though nice p.r. video.

Fascinating, interesting, intriguing and exciting content. Thank you so much!

Automation tends push what people need to be able to work with, meaning that people getting replaced need to be able to take not only new jobs, but possibly new types of jobs.

In automation IT industries and bigger enterprises a common argument have been that people will be able to focus on core, "higher value", things as mundane things are
automated. It is not so simple in real life though. Automation sometimes moves risks, removing some human error risks but increasing complex technology risks.
People are different and have different alignment for "abstract higher value" work versus hands on work, so I belive that some automation will get many people in a very bad situation, it will kick out some people from companies and perhaps even the job market.

Some economical benefits of being distruptive or early adopter tends to even out when many more do the same thing and the difference on services and prices even out.
Introducing a very high degree of automation and machine learning also have inherited risks of an organization to loose it organizational memory and "own understanding" of essential things. This may be a long slow process, but I say the risk is there.
See the vehicle manufactorsbeing very early on high degree of automation and starting to realize that remaning people were starting to loose the knowledge of manufacturing vehicles. New staff tended to focus on either "abstract" things not being essential for the manufactoring understanding or focus on IT related areas with very low understanding of vehicles and vehicle manufacturing.

Sometimes inovation and improvements comes from the floor, from people having had that "mundane" job for many years. Machine learning or so called weak AI can easily introduce false positives and a longer term flawed direction, especially so if people take it for granted the AI results will always be right. People putting too much trust in their AI solutions will probably risk not be viligant to false positives and increasing deviations, which may let the AI become increasingly faulty,
Many many people takes intentions as outcomes, but intentions with AI and automation is one thing and actual outcomes another. I whish more people will stay cool and assess outcomes and risks more instead of being impressed by intentions.

The drone knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is

too much advertising my friends!

Are these used in Ukraine ?

Winning the lottery is less than one in a million but someone wins all the time. So accounting for that is smart.

A friend of mine was flying a drone up a mountain to film nature and birds and some ravens downed the drone. You might want to avoid bird areas.

Give or sell them them to Ukraine!

I still wouldn't want to be under it if it fell on me. I've been too close to other model aircraft that augered in!

Ukrain has been using these to bomb Russia

Absolutely LOVED this visit to the drone facility. Thank you Adam.

Shocked that TheSlowMoGuys aren't in the comments here.

This is my kind of Company. :)