Cleo Robotics Demonstrates Uniquely Clever Ducted Fan Drone

Re:Cleo Robotics Demonstrates Uniquely Clever Ducted Fan Drone by foota on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @07:48PM (#16372418)

Could you flex the shape of the inner donut somehow to change the vortex?

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Re:Cleo Robotics Demonstrates Uniquely Clever Ducted Fan Drone by crocal on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @01:38AM (#16373957)

Yes. There is this company [1] trying to use a similar concept (ejectors) to build a « motorbike hovercraft ». I haven’t heard about them for a while. They have patents on the concept [2]

[1] www.aerofex.com [2] http://www.google.ch/patents/WO2011126535A2?cl=en

EDIT: link to patent.

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Re:Cleo Robotics Demonstrates Uniquely Clever Ducted Fan Drone by dmayle on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @08:43PM (#16372723)

This. The simplest way to guide would be with a flexible membrane in between the two rotors that contained some sort of electrofluidic bladder

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Re:Cleo Robotics Demonstrates Uniquely Clever Ducted Fan Drone by akhilcacharya on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @10:59PM (#16373346)

+1. This is what I was thinking but I'm not a a MechE. Would it work?

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Re:Cleo Robotics Demonstrates Uniquely Clever Ducted Fan Drone by foota on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @01:56AM (#16374020)

I'm not a mechanical engineer either :p

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