As the world’s first panoramic drone, the Yingling Antigravity A1, jointly launched by Yingshi Insta360 and a third-party team, combines panoramic shooting with free immersive flight with a new concept of “deconstructing flight”, creating a very simple gameplay of “flying first, then shooting”. Since its official announcement in August, it has caused a warm response in the global market. This product is based on the new generation of Xuri5 intelligent computing chip for sweet potato robots, which realizes the cross-border collision of 360 degree panoramic shooting and AI visual perception, bringing accurate binocular perception and AI obstacle avoidance ability, safeguarding the safe, intelligent and reliable flight of drones. The launch of Yingling Antigravity A1 marks the first commercial landing of sweet potato robots in consumer drone scenarios, and is also an important milestone in its breakthrough in robot application scenarios.
Dual breakthroughs in computing power and energy efficiency enable drones to fly stably and avoid skillfully
The Yingling Antigravity A1 adopts a dual panoramic lens design, equipped with 360 ° image stitching technology, allowing the body to achieve “invisibility” in the air. It also brings the ability of free composition into the field of aerial photography for the first time, solving various difficulties such as repeated takeoff and adjustment of the aircraft position in the past. Behind a series of innovative designs, it is necessary to synchronously process and fuse multiple sensor signal inputs, including image data from two panoramic fisheye lenses, front obstacle avoidance lenses, downward view sensors, and TOF module environmental perception information. It is also necessary to support real-time panoramic video stitching, transmission, and flight control decisions. Moreover, it is necessary to adapt to the design of a 249g lightweight folding fuselage, which puts strict requirements on the computing power and energy efficiency of the computing chip.
As a new generation of intelligent computing chip for sweet potato robots, the Xuri5 intelligent computing chip provides up to 10TOPS of AI computing power. It not only enhances AI based multi object depth perception, but also deeply optimizes new generation environment perception algorithms such as BEV and 3D Occupancy. It is compatible with advanced neural network models such as Transformer and can efficiently undertake end-to-end full stack computing tasks from multimodal perception to decision-making, supporting complex state solving and path planning, significantly improving the obstacle avoidance accuracy and flight stability of drones.
At the same time, with the powerful heterogeneous computing architecture of BPU, CPU, GPU, and DSP “four in one”, the Xuri5 intelligent computing chip can efficiently complete complex tasks on the end side, breaking the video communication link barrier of traditional multi chip solutions, thereby helping unmanned aerial vehicles simplify system design, reduce development complexity, and achieve a 1+1>2 system performance gain.
While providing powerful and rich computing performance, the Xuri 5 intelligent computing chip also has extreme power consumption performance in this application scenario, significantly reducing the heat generated by the chip during high-performance operation and greatly simplifying the product’s heat dissipation design. This not only saves the weight and internal space of the drone, but also solves the heat dissipation challenges faced by lightweight design and high-performance operation of drones. It helps the Yingling Antigravity A1 strictly control the weight of the drone to 249g, fully meeting the definition standards of micro drones.
Creating an assisted driving “flying brain” and opening up a new blue ocean in the consumer drone market
According to the “In depth Analysis and Development Trend Research Forecast Report on China’s Consumer grade Drone Market from 2025 to 2030” by China Research Institute Puhua, the scale of China’s consumer grade drone market will exceed 50 billion yuan in 2024. Although the growth rate has slowed down from 45% in 2020 to 18%, the industry has entered a deep water zone of “stock competition+scene innovation”. After nearly 20 years of development, the consumer drone industry has continued to iterate around parameters such as sensors, range, image transmission, and obstacle avoidance. However, there are still pain points such as a single shooting perspective and high operational barriers.
As a new player in the industry, Yingling Antigravity is committed to creating a product that “redefines the way of flying” from scratch. With the technological accumulation of Insta360 in the field of panoramic imaging, Yingling Antigravity uses the revolutionary concept of “flying first, then framing” to significantly reduce the creative threshold of professional camera operation, allowing ordinary consumers to easily take movie level aerial photography works, opening up a new imaginative space for the consumer level drone market.
In the process of assisting in the development of Yingling Antigravity A1, the Sweet Potato Robot worked closely with the Yingling Antigravity team to fully tap into the potential of the Xuri5 intelligent computing chip through in-depth software and hardware polishing and system level optimization design, endowing the drone with an assisted driving level “flying brain” with autonomous obstacle avoidance, intelligent tracking and other abilities, helping creators to free themselves from tedious control and easily control aerial photography. The cooperation between both parties has jointly set a new benchmark in the field of consumer grade drones, bringing new options and increments to the market.
Yingling Antigravity A1 is expected to achieve trial sales in some regional markets in the fourth quarter of 2025 and will make a surprise appearance at the 2025 Sweet Potato Robot Developer Conference on November 21. At that time, sweet potato robots will also bring more innovative products based on Xuri intelligent computing chips and RDK robot developer kits, unlocking new imaginative space for robot application development.
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