A new sports league features midair battles between drones.
According to a ZD Net report, the league is called Game of Drones, and has roots in fighting airborne robots five years ago.
Once the core group of "drone fighters" figured out how to make their drone frames more durable in order to withstand the pounding they take during battle, the Game of Drones league was born.
"Everything that came in the box was a fail point, the air frame especially," league founder and CEO Marque Cornblatt told ZD Net.
Cornblatt discovered that most drones were built to fly, not to withstand a crash, so they started experimenting with military-grade plastics and ballistics materials, according to the report. The beefed-up frames, Cornblatt said, are "actually much stronger than any case. You can pile luggage on top of it all day."
A New York Observer piece published in December took a deeper look into the world of drone fighting. Cornblatt told the publication that law enforcement, fire officials, and the military has been asking him about his stronger frame design.
"Originally, we thought the sports league was a way to promote the hardware, but in a way, the league's become the driving force," Cornblatt said.
Drones seem to be in the news nearly every day, whether it's an unmanned
military drone missile strike on a target or a
civilian drone flying too close to an airplane.
The military is taking its drone technology a step further, as it is
developing a bug-sized drone that weighs a little more than half an ounce.
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