Dji’s Neo 2 Selfie Drone Has Lidar For Obstacle Avoidance

DJI conscionable announced nan Neo 2 selfie drone, a follow-up to past year's original. This upgraded exemplary includes a full batch of caller features. Just make judge to group DJI's website to Hong Kong/China to spot images and specs.

Perhaps nan biggest upgrade present is nan inclusion of LiDAR sensors for obstacle avoidance. The LiDAR is paired pinch downward-looking infrared sensors truthful it should beryllium overmuch safer arsenic nan drone follows you during flight. It still has integrated guards to protect nan propellers, but nan caller obstacle avoidance strategy adds immoderate much bid of mind.

The drone besides now allows for motion controls, which is useful erstwhile filming quickly-moving selfie videos. Users tin set position and region by moving their hands around. It still supports mobility controllers and DJI's RC-N3 distant controller.

The max velocity has been accrued to astir 27MPH, which is overmuch faster than nan original's travel speed. DJI told The Verge that nan drone is amended astatine handling difficult upwind conditions, arsenic it tin support a unchangeable hover successful winds up to astir 24MPH.

The artillery life is better, pinch a larger 1606mAh rechargeable artillery that gets up to 19 minutes of usage per charge. The original got astir 14 to 17 minutes per charge. The camera now uses a dual-axis gimbal for improved stability, though has nan aforesaid half-inch sensor of nan original. However, nan section of position has been widened and it tin seizure 4K footage astatine up to 60FPS. This goes up to 100FPS erstwhile nan drone is being piloted manually.

The soul retention has been boosted each nan measurement up to 49GB, from 22GB. All of these upgrades person made nan drone somewhat heavier than nan original, astatine 151 grams compared to 135 grams. If nan artillery life and velocity are better, past nan added weight doesn't really matter successful my eyes.

The bad news? The Neo 2 is presently only disposable successful China. We called nan original "the champion $200 drone ever made" truthful we dream DJI goes for a wider merchandise arsenic soon arsenic possible. The bully news? The value should stay comparatively similar, arsenic it costs 1,499 Chinese Yuan. This translates to $211 successful US dollars. However, we person nary thought really aliases if tariffs will effect this pricing.