Chapter 25. The Future
As futuristic as a current drone performing a completely autonomous flight might seem, most people agree that we are only at the beginning. There may yet be new breakthroughs that change the game, breakthroughs like in the motors, batteries, and control systems I described in Chapter 1 as making drones possible. Battery technology seems like one place where radical changes might happen. But we will stay on safer ground, or perhaps in safer skies, here by only asking where current trends might take us.
Specialization
Already an aerial photography drone looks different from a racing drone. If and when we have delivery drones, those will surely be a different breed again. Just as today we have several well established categories ...
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