EHang’s E-184 has a cruising speed of up to 100 kilometers an hour and can stay in the air for 25 minutes. EHang’s chief executive officer Hu Huazhi says they’ll be in operation as “taxi drones” in Dubai in 2018—as long as they get approval from regulators there. Four battery-powered propellers lift the drone off the ground, and it’s equipped with fully-automated navigation, according to CEO Hu. “We will start mass production of our passenger drones at the beginning of next year,” Hu told Bloomberg TV. “We also plan to install fully automated production lines to enlarge manufacturing capacity in 2018.”EHang has big ambitions — it wants to develop a network of taxi drones around the world.

Source: Mint November 24, 2017 03:22 UTC