Thanks to the Fediverse integration of Flipboard I just saw the post from National Geographic where they link “Grace for the World: Recreating Michelangelo’s masterpieces above the Vatican“.
At first I thought it was mainly about how impressive the show itself was. But there’s also another topic: the technology and the team behind the scenes:
The company is just about 60 people. Nothing outsourced all self built: very light weight drones and the software tailored to the very specific needs of localization and navigation.
But the technology is impressive, too. Not just the navigation and localization of the drones is quite an achievement, but I also wondered, how they kept those light weight drones in the air for 2h. Actually, they don’t! They have 3,500 drones of which 3,000 are airborne. 500 are recharging and autonomously swapping with in-air-drones on demand that run low on battery or bail out du to reasons (wind, technical, ..).
It’s worth a visit: Grace for the World: Recreating Michelangelo’s masterpieces above the Vatican | National Geographic
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