Animal Dynamics just made another type of drone that is inspired by the most awesome flying creature in the forest and in the animal kingdom. The new type of drone was inspired by the not-so-humble dragonfly that has a budget of around $1.8 million dollars funded by the UK and the project was dubbed as "Skeeter."

According to Adrian Thomas, a professor at Biomechanics in Zoology Department at Oxford University and a Chief Security Officer. He said that dragonfly is the effect and most efficient flyer in the insect world and to be the greatest predator. It catches and eats everything from hornets to wasps due to its flight apparatus that has evolved over 300 million years of air combat.

The new drone made by Animal Dynamics is scheduled to publicly demoed next year, 2018. The said project was funded by UK's Ministry of Defence through DSTL (Defence Science and Technology Lab, Tech Crunch has reported.

Thomas further claimed that the new drones have two advantages; first is the response rate at the wing-beat frequency which has a rapid response to turbulence. Second is the rapid response rate is very dependent on the wing loading which determines the endurance of these hovering vehicles have.

The Animal Dynamics have used the wings instead of mostly use in drones, the motors which allows the Skeeter dragonfly drone to glide into thermals and performs much graceful landing if power shortage strikes. According to Thomas, they needed to be able to interact with customers in a safe way and the thought of Skeeter can glide into a safer landing at low speed is interesting.

The Skeeter drone has a weigh less than 20 grams that already includes the navigation sensor, camera. It also has a top speed reportedly to sport 45 kilometers per hour, the drone also set to be around 120mm size, The American Genius has reported.

These displays reportedly didn't anticipate and are unplanned by the Animal Dynamics. The project was started back in June 2015 and the Skeeter drone is expected to be on the air in two or three months from now.

Alex Caccia, the CEO stated that the company is very interested in different ways with the natural system can produce high-end motility and locomotion. He further stated that the company is not just a biomimetics instead they look more into underlying physics that can gain and develop a system to their full potential, like the Skeeter drone.

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