Laser power beaming to a drone breaks flight record

This is quite incredible tech – Ascending and LaserMotive have teamed up to break the flight record time for a UAV having it fly for 12 hours without touchdown!

LaserMotive is a Seattle-based company developing laser power beaming systems to transmit electricity without wires, for applications where wires are either cost prohibitive or physically impractical. As our first project, we won $900,000 in the NASA-sponsored Power Beaming competition, part of the Space Elevator Games.