The device is powered by Snappy Ubuntu Core

Oct 13, 2015 21:40 GMT  ·  By

We've talked a lot about the upcoming Ubuntu-powered drone with legs, called Erle-Spider, from the Erle Robotics team, who just demoed the device live earlier today, October 13, on Canonical's UbuntuOnAir YouTube channel (see the video below).

With this occasion, we would like to inform those of you who are not in the loop that Erle-Spider is a six-legged computer based on ROS (Robot Operating System) and powered by the Snappy Ubuntu Core OS.

Erle-Spider is capable of connecting to Canonica's cloud-based app store where users can build and distribute applications and behaviours for the Ubuntu-powered drone. It also features wireless communication, transactional updates, and Bluetooth controller.

The drone uses Erle Robotics' Erle-Brain 2, which boasts some impressive hardware, including a 900MHz Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU, 1GB of RAM, gyroscope, pressure, and gravity sensors, as well as USB, Ethernet, UART, I2C, and HDMI ports.

The Erle-Spider project was launched on IndieGoGo last month with a goal of raising $50,000 (€45,000), but there are only 9 days left and it only managed to rise half the funds needed to become reality, which means that it needs your help.

All the details you need to help the Erle-Spider drone rise the funds it needs are available here, so let's make some history guys, shall we?! Below you can enjoy a demo of the Ubuntu-powered drone in action.