Skye to fly over exhibitors at CeBIT 2016
The information and communications technology show, known as CeBIT, is held every year in Germany’s Hanover. This year’s event had many robots, drones, and innovations, such as the “SKYE” inflatable drone.
The "Skye" is a 3-meter-diameter controllable balloon that’s filled with helium. Dotted around the surface are propellers whose direction can be adjusted, spinning the balloon or moving it around as required. There’s also the option to add an internal projector to display moving images on the balloon’s skin. Skye has been used at events as a crowd-pleaser, but it can also be used as a platform for aerial photography by adding cameras.
In large part this full-service approach comes from the fact that Skye is currently too tricky to fly by anyone but a trained operator. But one of the company’s founders says that they are working on a much more autonomous version that can be operated independently by customers.
With fully charged batteries, the Skye can fly for two to three hours, and can work both outdoors and indoors. The height it can reach outdoors is largely limited by winds, so it typically stays within a maximum height of 20 to 30 meters. The Skye can spin rapidly, making it suitable as platform for covering specific events such as racing that follows a track and it can move around with top speed of about 15 to 20 kilometers per hour, but the company says they are working to increase that in the next version as well.
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