Flying at speeds over 70 mph, Teal is the world’s fastest production drone. It also flips, rolls, and dives as fast as your gut lets you, while staying stable in winds up to 40 mph.
Teal is powered by the NVIDIA TX1, a crazy powerful mini supercomputer (teraFLOP processing power). It handles machine learning, autonomous flight, image recognition, and much more with ease, onboard the drone itself. This makes Teal a flying supercomputer. You can even plug Teal into a monitor, use it like a normal computer, play games on it, and go fly when you want.
Teal does not have standard obstacle avoidance built in. However, they are working on sense and avoid capability that functions directly through the camera that’s already integrated in Teal (via machine learning). They will offer that as a future update. We are also working on upgrade add-on modules that provide more obstacle avoidance capabilities.
The GPS system built into our Inertial Navigation System gives GPS/GLONASS capability with fast update rates and high accuracies. It supports standard GPS (+- 1.5m accuracy) while also offering Differential and RTK GPS capability (+- 0.5m, +- 0.05m, respectively), which isn’t available in any other production drone today. This makes Teal the first drone with such high accuracy, stability, and performance. They are working on and expecting to have Differential and RTK ready for when we ship, but may include them as a software update shortly after.
The Teal SDK allows you to build apps that run on Teal, as well as mobile apps to communicate with Teal. they provide full access to the computing power of the TX1, as well as the ability to connect your own hardware through USB ports, so the possibilities are virtually limitless.
What kinds of apps can I make for Teal?
They are envisioning use cases ranging from advanced autonomous flight, thermal imaging integration, search and rescue, and augmented reality.
TEAL SPECIFICATIONS
Max Horizontal Speed
70+ MPH
Wind Resistance
40 MPH
Flight Time
10 minutes (High Performance Battery)
Flight Time
20 minutes (High Endurance Battery)
Thrust to Weight Ratio
4.8:1
Diagonal Size
261mm (Motor to Motor)
All Up Weight
730g
Payload Capacity
500g
Body Material
Carbon Infused/Polycarbonate Plastic
Connectivity
3x USB 2.0, 1x USB 3.0, HDMI 2.0, GPIO, FPV Cam/Tx, PWM/PPM/DSM/Sbus
GPS Modes
Standard, Differential, RTK
Hover Accuracy
Standard: 1.5m, Differential: 0.5m, RTK: 0.1m
Range
WiFi: 300ft, Extended WiFi: 2500ft, 2.4ghz Tx: 5000ft+
PROCESSOR
Model NVIDIA TX1
GPU
1 TFLOP/s, 256 core
CPU
64-bit ARM A57 CPUs
Memory
4 GB LPDDR4, 25.6 GB/s
Storage
16 GB eMMC, SDIO, SATA
FLIGHT BATTERY
Capacity
1800mah
Voltage
15.2v
Battery Type
Lithium Polymer
Energy
27.36Wh
Net Weight
250g
Discharge Rating
45C
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