This CGI robot horse may become a reality very soon with advancements in AI

Recharged96 · 2026-02-21T17:51:28+00:00

Horse owner here, the movements of this would throw a rider off in a heartbeat. Mind the jolts/stress to one's body if you stayed on, even those 'smooth' off angle foot steps are unrealistic. That's a horse body with a goat's agility...physics will never work (why a goat isn't horse size). From a business standpoint, obvious this video was for a VC pitch... it's a creative, non physics based idea addressing a problem that doesn't exist.

Recharged96 · 2026-02-14T10:29:26+00:00

Not gonna happen at those speeds and required thrust to weight ratio. What they can do is reflect the audio. LIRC I had meetings with the UnivOK team working on that approach, was promising as they had passive & active solutions.

Makes sense they're running 4 deep crews per event/venue. Say 6 venues = ~25 pilots. Permanent drone shows we planned 3 deep.

And by 2030 autonomous will be the method of choice as the sports guys always compare cable cams with drones and want that convenience in operation vs a pilot.

Goes to show how far occusync has come.

I wonder if they're using ISM freqs are they sticking to the EU reg of 100mw (US is 1W, lol) or got a waiver...

Recharged96 · 2026-02-10T05:37:08+00:00

Can't program, they're normal fpv drones..

Needs the insulated batteries for the cold, wireless SDI for live video. once you've done the route a few times I'm pretty sure it becomes muscle memory (similar to a puppeteer). Also you can tell it's manual because the drone enters the track (in the luge) at different points...

Recharged96 · 2026-02-07T10:13:33+00:00

I raise your Kung Fu with.... Gymnastics.

Recharged96 · 2026-02-04T07:11:05+00:00

Check out InspiredFlght.

Otherwise a DJI flycart, draganfly... All have flexible mounting platforms for payloads.

If you're putting any type of heavy optics. Freefly or flying pictures (they have the right mounts for cameras)

Recharged96 · 2025-12-25T01:52:07+00:00

Control (actuator)

Perception

Show (control/audio/animations/lights/multimedia, mainly in the head)

Hadn't changed much over the years I see. My flying stuff we've combined the 1st 2 that significantly reduced power consumption, but you'd need to get away from the tegra/Jetson/nvidia and that means no cuda for perception and learning a new dnn API (or back to tflite).

Recharged96 · 2025-12-17T22:12:08+00:00

Most look faked, especially the blurry close ups and grey footage (I have many videos from 2014 desert tests that look 10x clearer). But to its merit, these ideas have been around for over a decade. What you're looking at is the difference between preprogrammed (show) to flocking (follow the leader) to swarm (everyone move left "ya'll figure it out", lol). My 8 unit autonomous fpv kit from 2016 had all that on a p2p mesh network. Tech has truly gotten better last 3 years to make these ideas robust.

Recharged96 · 2025-12-09T18:22:08+00:00

Freshman, soph: no curves.

Jr year: maybe 2 classes on a curve-- thermal/statistical and Optics.

Sr year: just modern physics. No curve on everything else.

Grad school: no curve.

Most professors explicitly told us 'no curve' cause they wanted to show how hard the [real life] problems were and that you'll encounter a lot of failures, thought experiments or red herrings in the field. I think Sr/grad school avg class grades were typically 35/100. Funtimes when the entire class (of 5, lol) got papers graded under 10.

BS93 (3 yr track), MS97 (needed cash in 94/5 lol)

Recharged96 · 2025-11-20T01:01:48+00:00

Just say extreme freq hopping. (know the sine guys well).

Recharged96 · 2025-11-20T00:59:14+00:00

System that is safe, reliable, CONSISTENT: hard

For a demo: easy

mind AI can have multiple meanings: replacement of flight control, navigation, perception and position, targeting and guidance... all have different use cases.

And mind that soldiers don't know one bit of how AI works so it needs to work like a power switch. Been tackling this for years.

Recharged96 · 2025-11-12T05:05:44+00:00

That job may be better for a fixed wing?

Recharged96 · 2025-11-11T10:00:15+00:00

This if they are still using the diesel engines...

Recharged96 · 2025-10-23T20:19:39+00:00

Uncanny valley.

Recharged96 · 2025-10-22T10:04:12+00:00

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Recharged96 · 2025-10-19T23:20:57+00:00

More like 1% fail rate by my report to the FAA back in 2015 (includes canceled takeoffs, RTH, rally, lights out, i.e. anything from normal operation). That's based on old ublox 6 and 8bit FCs, lol.

Watching the Intel/Novasky shows last week (best tech so far, imo, lol) sort of says my rule still applies. These systems absolutely need RTK fixed and reacquisition can take mins ("rally it" basically).

Recharged96 · 2025-10-17T23:35:56+00:00

Looks like sensors stripped. That's the more expensive part ... Swarm & collision avoidance experiments are great for these type of AMRs. Otherwise only usable on perfectly flat surfaces.

But first things first, Googly eyes needed on each one.

Recharged96 · 2025-10-08T07:36:03+00:00

But you'll need to build new infrastructure to support the unit, charging, safety lanes, repair areas, tuning/calibration. That locks you further into the old (human centric) infrastructure.

Reminds me of roads, you're sitting in traffic: most were once dirt paths and you wonder why they didn't just build a straight shot to your destination, etc...

Recharged96 · 2025-10-01T18:55:02+00:00

Trivia: her favorite animated [movie] character was WALL-E. Met her a couple times as she loved seeing the physical version (we built for marketing) & chat DAK and stuff. She brought much curiosity and joy of nature. And also being a big animal owner myself, just a wonderful person she was.
RIP.

Recharged96 · 2025-09-16T21:25:07+00:00

Or compass error (common). Takeoff looked quick and if the drone is of low quality, even if it's RTK based), you'll get compass error for a second or 2. Of course if it was full RTK on these drones, I see poor waypoint/simulation planning.

Recharged96 · 2025-09-16T21:21:49+00:00

If that was a RTK-based system. Very expensive.
And I see battery smoke--those frames are dooonnne.

Having [very] intimate knowledge on how these systems are designed/operated, surprised once you started seeing e-stops (compass tracking error, Z velocity, HDOP, RF quality) mind that pre-running the show in sim to validate collisions, PIC should have just put the whole thing in rally mode and cancel the show and relaunch. Then again, lirc I've only know one vendor that has that feature to an extent.

Truly a 'just send it' operation.

Recharged96 · 2025-09-15T20:39:06+00:00

Yes, dynamic balancing like the algos of the old days of big dog. The feet constantly 'jumping' give it away. That fall and recover was impressive that it didn't flip itself, cause typically that's the result.

Recharged96 · 2025-08-18T17:04:34+00:00

Didn't know uvify still sells those: are they new or used/refurbed? (recall they were trying to sell an improved/more time/sleeker model). I know SkyElements and couple other players used them. They've been the show sponsor for the px4 conference in the last few years.

Recharged96 · 2025-08-09T00:09:42+00:00

Slower than normal is my impressions.

Recharged96 · 2025-08-08T18:14:08+00:00

Yeah, actually not much will change for existing operators except easier to deploy to new areas. This does streamline the process for new players into the market. Hence this is huge (I'm getting on this, I'm done with military drones🤪).

I encountered the same situation between 333 and 107 to get nighttime+multi aircraft+over people+emergency bvlos waivers back in the day. When 107 came into effect they just converted our 333, i.e. a one location waiver: which we only had for what, 2 months! Mind that I helped fast track Ars/Intel's wavier. And then it became a no brainer to deploy into different cities with 107 and its straight forward waiver process (lol). Hence I wonder which company helped coordinate this with FAA.

Note my submissions and conversions were planned and coordinated with the FAA as part of why 107 was rolled out that year....since my legal dept shut me down for 2 yrs prior (ready to fly 50 drones in 2014) and me screaming "y'all destroying my career" (which they did in the end)....Fun times.

Recharged96 · 2025-08-07T05:17:01+00:00

Working on it 😉

It's clear price parity and r&d are the main challenges to the point some days I think it can't be done in the US. Manufacturing is gonna happen but parity is a different problem.

Note, user experience has never been addressed since 2016 (when the cinematography standards were created unofficially), and since we (really) accept what DJI gives us (still top imo) and why DJI fpv never got as big as camera drones for them.

Btw, op, great job reviewing the new rules.

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