The drone powered by Intel that starred in the 2017 Verizon Slam Dunk is a fully-redundant hexacopter. It is designed with safety in mind and is resistant against any single point of failure. The ...

During Saturday’s NBA Slam Dunk Contest, part of an annual NBA event that also includes the All Star Game and 3-point contest, Orlando Magic forward Aaron Gordon used Intel’s “AscTec Neo ...

Aaron Gordon’s slam dunk during the Slam Dunk Contest on All-Star Saturday gets an assist from a drone after a few do-overs. It was a great concept that proves that Aaron Gordon of the Orlando ...

NEW ORLEANS – Two nights before Saturday’s Slam Dunk Contest, in a mostly empty Smoothie King Center crawling with overzealous security guards, Aaron Gordon tested his secret weapon. As NBA ...

It took Gordon four attempts to finish the drone dunk. ... Instead, Gordon was eliminated in the first round and Robinson took home the 2017 All Star Slam Dunk title.

A remote-controlled drone made an appearance at the NBA’s Slam Dunk Contest on Saturday when it assisted on a dunk by the Orlando Magic’s Aaron Gordon. The drone, which was “powered by Intel ...

Orlando Magic player Aaron Gordon took things to a whole new level in tonight's NBA Slam Dunk Contest, one of the main events during the league's All-Star Weekend. The 21-year-old worked with ...

Welcome to 2017 where the NBA's first drone dunk was attempted by Aaron Gordon at the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest Saturday. And he failed miserably.

S.L.A.M.dunk is development kit for drones equipped with hardware that suggests a particular focus on obstacle avoidance and navigation 3 / 4 The device runs the Robot Operating System on Ubuntu 14.04 ...

The idea for a “Drone Dunk” came to Gordon this past year as he puzzled over how to top his 2016 performance in ... adding that he would not compete in the 2018 Slam Dunk Contest in Los Angeles.

Its newly announced S.L.A.M.dunk development kit for drones is equipped with hardware that suggests a particular focus on obstacle avoidance and navigation, but doubles as a desktop computer as well.