/technologies/automotive/b/blog/posts/sphere-drone-robotwww.youtube.com/watch The Japanese Ministry of Self-Defense went to the geek capitol of Akihabara, a section of Tokyo, to source parts for this &quot;reconnaissance drone.&quot; In its current form, it can travel 40 mph for up to 8 minutes. Since the dron...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/automotive/b/blog/posts/sphere-drone-robotTue, 14 Jun 2011 21:31:24 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:24c83281-28bb-4df5-bff4-cc9ced1a0f4cDAB0<p>After watching the video I want one.&nbsp; This thing is so cool and it has a wide range of possible applications.&nbsp; Just think about the area you could cover in a search and rescue operations with these tools.&nbsp; Absolutely amazing, you could coordinate efforts very quickly and get help to survivors very efficiently.&nbsp; Over water, you could put a raft and supplies in a dropable package and send these things out to find people in the water and drop them a raft with food, fresh water and trigger a GPS transmitter so they could be rescued.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A whole lot of these could do a lot of work normally done by people on the ground, except these things could cover a whole lot more area in a given time frame.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=12493&AppID=8&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">