Drones belong to a class of aerial vehicles known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

(UAVs). These vehicles can take to the air without pilots.

A quadcopter, or multirotor, drone, or quadrotor, is a simple flying mechanical vehicle that

has four arms, and in each arm there is a motor attached to a propeller.

Two of the rotors turn clockwise, while the other two turn counter clockwise. Quadcopters
are aerodynamically unstable, and require a flight computer to convert your input commands
into commands that change the RPMs of the propellers to produce the desired motion.

Essentially, this makes drones flying robots.

Family of UAVs

Components

Advantages and disadvantages

As its name suggests, this rotorcraft (a craft lifted by spinning rotor blades)
depends on four quick-turning rotors to give it thrust. Two spin clockwise and
the other two, counter-clockwise.

Pilots achieve control of the craft by using remote control transmitters to

change the speed of its rotor discs.