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title: ""This is the ionocraft, currently under development at UC Berkeley.…"
date: 2019-02-08
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# "This is the ionocraft, currently under development at UC Berkeley.…

*February 8, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/drones/pennysized-ionocraft-flies-with-no-moving-parts?hash=81fd61d7-23c2-471a-851e-49dbe3b2f9b9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=r9sAVC600TbPrVFzhLWLNTwQ4T0Q5cF3vG-cqHJfbUw](https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/drones/pennysized-ionocraft-flies-with-no-moving-parts?hash=81fd61d7-23c2-471a-851e-49dbe3b2f9b9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=r9sAVC600TbPrVFzhLWLNTwQ4T0Q5cF3vG-cqHJfbUw){target="_blank"}
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\"This is the ionocraft, currently under development at UC Berkeley. It's tiny--- just 2 cm x 2 cm, weighing 30 mg, plus a 37-mg IMU (although power is supplied through a tether). At small scales, the lack of moving parts becomes a real asset, because you don't have to worry about figuring out how to scale mechanical things like transmissions down beyond a point where it will be really frustrating at best and impossible at worst. Including its IMU payload, the ionocraft was able to take off and hover with an input of 2,000 volts at just under 0.35 mA:\"
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