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Lockheed certainly isn't the first developer of monoblade helicopters (several Uni's have been developing them for years).
Unless they can actually get them down to the size of a maple seed, the advantages they have over quad-copters are slim and none.
Besides the processing power required for stable flight, the video processing requirements (either airborne or on the ground) are very high, since the camera is spinning at the same rate as the bird.
Interesting concept, but doubtful it will win out over the quad's.
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Unless they can actually get them down to the size of a maple seed, the advantages they have over quad-copters are slim and none.
Besides the processing power required for stable flight, the video processing requirements (either airborne or on the ground) are very high, since the camera is spinning at the same rate as the bird.
Interesting concept, but doubtful it will win out over the quad's.