Parrot MiniDrone Rolling Spider, Parrot SA, Paris, France

Parrot MiniDrone: A miniature drone piloted in Bluetooth Smart with a Smartphone or a tablet, that flies... and rolls from floor to ceiling.

Parrot Jumping Sumo: The first robot-insect, controlled in Wi-Fi 2.4 or 5GHz with a Smartphone or a tablet that spins, jumps up to 80 cm and takes 90 degree turns.

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Even though it's technically not an automated drone, we're excited to try out Parrot's new MiniDrone quadcopter, a smaller and more nimble version of their AR.Drone. This mini-quad hovers in place and is controlled with a smartphone, and its roll frame lets it slide along ceilings and walls.

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Demo of Parrot's Rolling Spider MiniDrone at official release event in New York City.

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Unboxing and a quick tour of the new Parrot Rolling Spider.

Parrot Rolling Spider is an ultra-compact flying drone with impressive agility. It flies indoor and outdoor with great speed and stability. It rips through the air, flips and thanks to its removable wheels, rolls from floor to ceiling.

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"Enter the world of Parrot MiniDrones, the new generation of connected robots.

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"Parrot MiniDrones get US pricing, August release date"
Cramming a lot of fun into small packages, the Rolling Spider and Jumping Sumo MiniDrones will be landing in the US in time for the holidays.

by Joshua Goldman
June 13, 2014

Thanks to very stable flight and easy-to-learn controls, this mobile-device-controlled quad is a blast, but the fun might not last long enough for some.

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Parrot MiniDrones, the new generation of connected robots.

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Lots of requests for this one… the Parrot Mini Drones Rolling Spider. This is a neat "tech toy", but not really something for RC enthusiasts…

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Today we review the Parrot Rolling Spider Mini Drone. While the Rolling Spider came out in 2014 and we are late in reviewing it, it is so impressive we just had to put a video up.

We love how stable the Rolling Spider is and also the fact it can drive on walls and the ceiling. Here is all the info -
Parrot Rolling Spider is an ultra-compact drone controlled by smartphone. It flies indoors and outdoors with surprising speed and stability. Acrobatic tricks are available from the free app for MiniDrones FreeFlight 3.

Ultra-light, Rolling Spider performs half- and u-turns in one swipe.
He does ??front and rear loops in one click.
With its removable wheels, it runs from floor to ceiling and walls.
Equiped with a propellers cutout in case of a collision, it is designed to fly without harming living-room's luminaire!

55 grams of technology

6 times lighter than AR.Drone and the same flight stability thanks to an autopilot based on a 3-axis gyroscope and 3-axis accelerometer.

Pressure sensor for the flight altitude
Ultrasonic sensor for precision flying near the ground
Its vertical camera at 60 fps measures the speed comparing previous image.

Fly and roll!

This ultra-sophisticated technology based on sensor data fusion makes Rolling Spider one of the world's most stable drones.
It has an exclusive free-fall take-off mode: its engines start when you drop it.
Capture aerial views with the vertical mini-camera.

Capture aerial views

Rolling Spider's vertical camera enables you to take photos. You simply hit the ‘photo’ icon on piloting screen to take snapshots.
The photos are saved in the Rolling Spider’s memory which contains enough space for several hundred photos. Their resolution is 300,000 px. You recover your photos in FreeFlight 3 app: you transfer them from the Rolling Spider's internal memory to your piloting smartphone or tablet gallery.

Provided by data fusion of an ultrasonic sensor, a 3-axis gyroscope and 3-axis accelerometer, a vertical camera and a pressure sensor

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For this week's Show and Tell, Norm flies the Parrot Rolling Spider, a tiny quadcopter controlled by your smartphone. Made by Parrot, this "minidrone" is definitely more of a toy than hobbyist multi-rotor, but it's very simple to fly and impressively stable. Plus, it rolls on ceilings!

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Drones are getting so much better and easier to fly! Drone is one that I actually got the hang of in about 10 minutes of flying. And I do not a have a knack for flying remote control devices. No separate controller is required for this Parrot MiniDrone- you sync it to your smartphone via Bluetooth. And the wheels on the Rolling Spider help so much to keep it from causing damage to itself and others when it crashes. With a little more practice I am sure I could intentionally roll it up the walls!

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