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hey it's ben popper with the verge hanging out at CES 2015 we're checking out the air dog drone so tell me who you are and what we're doing here today hi my name is Edgars I'm CEO of the helical aerospace industries the company behind the air dog and what is air dog area is where unique drone it's a drone that can fly up to 45 miles and follow an athlete in action sports and shoot down a video so we developed our own dedicated tracking device we call ollege and thats that makes huge difference than only with this dedicated device we could achieve the precision agility and speed needed to follow really in action sport and so is the drone moving value and also the camera are they moving separately independently or together they are moving up barclay physics together the drone is doing the yaw moment and but the camera kimball is pitching the camera and so it can follow you if you're out I know you're doing motocross yesterday when you're skateboarding here but what if you're doing motocross when it runs into a tree I mean how does it know how to get out of the way of that stuff what we have developed is a software-based obstacle avoidance solution so if you know that then you're a mother Kris track for example you have some buildings and trees we simply use your smartphone and draw in a map those areas you mark them as no-fly zones and the drone will know that it should not fly into these zones do you think this is where the drones are headed like the next big sort of development for consumer drones is going to be the follow me feature not necessarily only the following features we call airdog a personal drone and with personal drone we mean that it's a drone that that's something you you just are not amazed by its capability to fly and you don't fly it manually but it does something useful for you so it's your personal drunk okay great thanks that was air dog here at CES 2015 be sure to subscribe at youtube.com slash the verge for more amazing drone video