The Kestrel Drone

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is redefining roads and skyways with advanced mobility technologies such as autonomous driving and Urban Air Mobility (UAM), suggesting a new paradigm for human mobility. This project sheds new light on drone mobility technology in terms of environmental aesthetics, focusing on global ecological issues. The Kestrel Drone is proposed based on a speculative scenario where "birds" become front-line users of drone technology and share their air routes with drones. At the exhibition hall, five Kestrel Drones were equipped with bird-mimicking wings and an AI tracker. The drones simulated a guiding bird for resident birds in a city. This project aims to evolve AI into a technology that has various parallel values that can coexist with non-human values, thus expanding the possibilities of technology.