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Drone 2.0 Elite EditionClick on an icon below Key featuresA high-tech quadricopter controlled by your smartphoneLive video streaming and HD video recordingAutomatic take-off, landing and stabilisation system Acrobatic manoeuvres with a mid-air flip featureLightweight but robust, built for indoor and outdoor use Available in three classic camouflage styles May or may not deliver itself to your front doornumber of key updatesParrot AR Drone 2.0controlled entirely from your smartphone or tablet. built-in camerasyou’re the pilot. Absolute Flight modesuperior control interface WiFi hotspotstream augmented reality games two interchangeable hull designsPlease Note: Does not include iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or Android device. You'd be a fool to think otherwise. Recommended for ages 14 years and up or with adult supervision Controlled by iPhone, iPad Touch, iPad and compatible Android devices Tilt your device to control the AR Drone 2.0’s movement Main Camera is HD 1280x720p, 92 degrees viewing with a wide angle lens
2x built-in cameras stream video directly to your device Augmented reality lets you play games over the live video feed Creates its own Wi-Fi hotspot for communicating with controller Autopilot: Provides automatic take off, hovering at a pre-determined height Auto landing: Both upon command, or when flight battery exhausted, following warning Three camouflage styles to choose from WiFi control range: 50m Battery: 3 cells 11.1v 30w 1,000mAh 14g lithium polymer pack Charging time: 60-90 minutes for a full charge Flight duration: Up to 12 minutes between charges Motors: 4x 14.5w brushless electric motors, capable of 4,000 rpm Altimeter: Emission frequency 40kHz (range 6m) providing vertical stabilisation Pressure sensor and improved algorithm allows for measuring air pressure and increased stability at high altitudes Accelerometer: Sensors detect movement and speed in 3 axis Gyroscopes: 2x electronic gyros provide superb directional stability controlling the pitch, roll angle and yaw, even outdoors in light winds
Beyond the hype, Open Innovation is a reality. In this article we tell the story of how Parrot, French leader in handfree car kits became leader on the market of drones in just a few years. This article is derived from one of the numerous case studies published in the book : Innovation Intelligence. The case studies are based on interviews, among others with Parrot CEO and Founder Henri Seydoux. Our Wi-Fi remote-control car must fly! Henri Seydoux had his epiphany as he walked along the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris. The idea he had in that moment would become one of his most difficult, as well as most exciting challenges as an entrepreneur. Back in 2007, Parrot had already been working for three years on a Wi-Fi remote-control car project, in order to diversify Parrot’s business. The product was ready for production… but it was not fun enough. Henri was about to cancel the project when he got the idea to turn the car into a drone. In a normal company, the remote-control car project would have been killed.
But Parrot was not a normal company. And Henri Seydoux was not a normal CEO. A bit like Steve Jobs, Henri is an atypical, self-taught, visionary entrepreneur. Henri defines himself as a a bookworm (un rat de bibliothèque), because everything he knows he learned on his own. The self-taught aspect of Henri is very important: searching for missing pieces of knowledge is hard-coded into his DNA. It is part of his culture. It has become part of Parrot’s culture. Passionate about philosophy, Henri himself is a sort of modern Enlightenment Philosopher. He knows how to search for knowledge in the global encyclopedia. Passionate about open-source software, he knows how to rapidly assemble the best technologies and the best talents to be the first to market with superior, innovative products. The challenges of the drone project were numerous and Henri knew that he would not be able to do everything by himself. Many of the required pieces of knowledge were not available in-house: aeronautics, mechanics, cameras, and control algorithms.
What would be outsourced? How would Parrot find the missing bits of knowledge? What value would Parrot add? To bring in the required knowledge and skills, every type of arrangement would be allowed: hiring, consulting, codevelopment, and so forth. Henri had to hunt down an expert outside of the company. While Pascal Zunino was an engineering student at the Grenoble Institute of Technology (INPG), he had already been designing and building his own drones in his garage for five years. Winning the prestigious ONERA/DGA innovation contest prize gave Pascal a lot of press coverage, thanks to which Henri Seydoux found him. That was the beginning of a collaboration that would last for three years. The collaboration would save Parrot precious time—probably several years. In early 2007 Parrot assembled the new team, the Commando team, that would be in charge of making the car fly. The young Pascal Zunino joined the Commando team as an external consultant. Pascal helped Parrot to develop various key aspects of Parrot’s drone: propeller design, control system and stabilization algorithms, ultrasound telemeter, benchmarks, noise reduction, and testing procedures.
While Parrot focused mainly on video, Pascal focused on flight. The relationship worked very well. The Commando team was like a small startup within Parrot. The main rules were secrecy and efficiency.Drone was officially launched at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas – 3 years after the “it must fly” epiphany. Drone was the star of the 2010 CES. It was the first Wi-Fi augmented reality quadricopter drone. The drone was loaded with sensors and video cameras. It had debuted just in time to surf the wave of the famous, miniature, remote-control helicopter PicooZ. In fact, Parrot was not just catching the wave but was extending it. Drone would hit the market just a few months later, with a global launch beginning in August 2010, starting in Hong Kong and France before spreading to the rest of the world. This initial product was a major success: 120,000 AR.Drones would be sold by the end of the year. Although Parrot’s drone project should have been killed on various occasions based on “good” innovation-management practices, it survived.
Seven years after the beginning of the drone project, four years after the launch of the AR.Drone, Parrot has realized two additional generations of the drone and has acquired other drone companies for expanding the drone’s professional applications. Of Parrot’s revenues today, 50% are generated by drone sales. Parrot successfully achieved diversification with short time to market. This achievement was made possible by Parrot assembling the necessary puzzle pieces, most of them coming from outside the company. The success has much to do with Henri Seydoux’s background: not being an engineer, he has the attitude in his DNA to search outside for information and to ask the right questions rather than trying to solve problems by himself. Albert Meige, CEO & Enchanteur, Presans. This article is extracted from one of the numerous case studies published in the book : Innovation Intelligence. Major Pressure on Innovation Drivers. In this book, the authors provide an up-to-date overview of recent, disruptive trends that induce changes in the way large companies deal with innovation.