Our World is Droning with Excitement

September 18, 2024  •  EPISODE 231

Discover how drones work and why GPS is key to smooth, successful flights. Zoom into the world of drones and explore the fascinating technology and science that keeps them soaring through the skies.

About DrB

Dr. Roger Billings is a visionary innovator whose work has touched the lives of millions of students and transformed the landscape of education. Widely known as “DrB” to the countless kids who benefit from his groundbreaking Acellus learning system, Dr. Billings has dedicated his life to advancing education through technology. As part of DrB’s lifelong commitment to supporting education, Science LIVE was launched as a way to “give back” by mentoring students in conjunction with the Roger Billings Scholarship Program.


Read more about DrB » 
About the Roger Billings Scholarship Program »

Follow

128 Comments

  1. Yusuf Aboshihata

    cool

    Reply
  2. Sebastian

    How much was the hello drone?

    Reply
  3. Nylah McMillan

    I really liked Cody and Malachi’s drones. They were really cool. I also liked Tobias’ story. Tobias is soooooooooooooooooooooooo funny!!!

    Reply
  4. Nylah McMillan

    I can tell you that I thought that I thought Dr. Joshua actually was lifting it. I was soooooooo fooled guys!!! I actually thought he was really strong.

    Reply
  5. KIDZ BOP

    Drones are wickedly cool!

    Reply
  6. Ryleigh Mason

    I find that interesting because my brother got a drone for christmas and we didn’t know the first 2 blades could be clockwise and the other 2 counterclockwise

    Reply
  7. David Jacobs

    wouldnt be anywhere without a gps

    Reply
  8. Nathaniel Thompson

    My birthday’s in January. and I think I want to get a drone.
    But they are really cool. Hey, you can hook a camera on them. That’s cool!!

    Reply
  9. Brieanna Wright

    Who invented the first drone?

    Reply
  10. Jaden

    I need me one of those.

    Reply
  11. Maximilian

    It is a new world.

    Reply
  12. Newton ชิติพัทธ์

    Hummingbirds are living drones.

    Reply
  13. Jeffrey nord

    Zip line is a company that specializes in drone in place where normal mefeds can’t be used like one in I forget the name of the country but it was great and it could also be used in fast food delivery and supermarkets.

    Reply
  14. Laci King

    drones are really cool

    Reply
  15. Shawn Matthews

    My sister had a drone. My dad accidentally crashed it into the house.

    Reply
  16. Megan hoskins

    I love drones! They are so fun!

    Reply
  17. Aidan Griser

    i didn’t know drones operation was so complicated

    Reply
  18. Harley Gonzales

    Drones are so cool. They can do so much.

    Reply
  19. Addison toth

    I vote for Eric 1#

    Reply
  20. Jada R.

    As a 10th grade student taking the Business Math course, I found that lesson 9, which was teaching me about Federal Income Taxes, was a difficult subject for me. I was tempted to give up, guess, ask for help, etc, but instead, and persevered through. This video helped me, and provided insight into my problem, and I ended up passing with a wonderful grade.

    Reply
  21. Ariana Mauldin

    This video was wonderful! Drones are so fascinating. I wonder what they will look like in the future and if they will be able to carry more weight in the future.

    Reply
  22. Ronnie Horner

    Really cool science live I love tuning into them.

    Reply
  23. Emily

    Drones are so cool I want to get one with the camera this was so interesting

    Reply
  24. Trevor Fishack

    Ny grand dad told me that Our Military has drones to hunt people down. Which I believe would save the lives of thousands of people if ever we were in a war situation.

    Reply
  25. barrett pirtle

    I use drones when I have trouble finding my deer that I can’t track. Only when we can’t find them we will break out the drones.

    Reply
  26. riley daniel

    r-51 seems so cool!

    Reply
  27. Lily Allen

    drones are incredible, i love how humans use their knowledge to create amazing things like drones!!

    Reply
  28. Becker Eisele

    that was cool

    Reply
  29. Lela Eisele

    Drones are super cool! I used to have one, but it broke…

    Reply
  30. Campbell Dean

    could someone build a drone as big as a car that can run on gas?

    Reply
  31. Michael Tymofy II

    I love drones!

    Reply
  32. emma

    I love learning about drones their cool :>

    Reply
  33. anna

    nice i love drones

    Reply
  34. Brooke Saley

    Drones are very helpful with lots of diff Jobs.

    Reply
  35. Kyle Saley

    My drones always get stuck in trees.

    Reply
  36. Tino Salazar

    I love playing with drones.

    Reply
  37. Aurora Rivera

    It’s cool to see how drones are now being used for different things apart from taking videos.

    Reply
  38. Lego kid

    Nice stuff man. Speaking of drones I can make my drone carry a Lego car 🚗, like in the military helicopters can carry military vehicles. So cool 😎 right.

    Reply
  39. Blaze

    I love drones they are cool

    Reply
  40. Asher Germany

    I love drones drones are cool and awsome

    Reply
  41. Rylan Myers

    My mom has photographer friends that use drones for their photography businesses

    Reply
  42. Lincoln Buchkowski

    DR.B IS my favorite

    Reply
  43. Caiden Hiner

    I loved learning more about drones. I have one that I don’t play with much.

    Reply
  44. Callan Hiner

    I enjoyed learning about drones.

    Reply
  45. Ava Cleveland

    Drones are so much fun but I Like science too

    Reply
  46. Tiffany Harris

    I love the idea that you can make drones with cameras .so cool 😎

    Reply
  47. Kaden

    I still can’t believe R-51 is alive, all his experiments have gone either over the table or just didn’t work. Lets just hope his next one doesn’t blow up his laboratory.

    Reply
  48. Kaden

    My friend Garret has a drone business its cool He just bought this drone that is as big as me. It has thermal vision and night vision and can fly as high as commercial airplanes, He said he was gonna use it for the police to do a night watch in Branson west. Drones are pretty cool though, oh yeah He also has this one that you have to use a VR camera and joystick, its really fun. Drones are definitely the future! Its also crazy to think they said drones would be a 42 billion dollar business next year.

    Reply
  49. Ethan todd

    I wish I could go on the Acellus show

    Reply
  50. Meadow McMahon

    wow, that is so cool!!

    Reply
  51. Minerva

    so Cool! i love learning about drones!

    Reply
  52. Nathan Burney

    OMG ONE OF THOSE ARE THE SAME DRONE I HAVE AT HOME MINE IS THE WHITE LED LIGHTS ONE

    Reply
  53. Noah Henson

    I want a drone for Christmas

    Reply
  54. Ava Cleveland

    So cool

    Reply
  55. Jean A.

    If a drone was able to support a solar panel, do you believe that we can use drones to collect our solar power for small appliances like a microwave, and other small electrical appliances?
    Just an interesting thought.🤔

    Reply
  56. Emma

    Yeah one time I saw a drone i was very happy 🤗

    Reply
  57. Ava Cleveland

    I Like drones

    Reply
  58. Josiah Alkire

    I just now noticed that Ryan was right, Malachi does have a book about learning Italian on his desk. I also like Malachi’s message LOL!

    Reply
  59. Josiah Alkire

    I got a tiny drone that you can fly in the house for my 12th birthday two years ago. But on my first flight the drone went in the kitchen, hit the wall and
    fell in my sink full of water! Lets just say its flying days were over! 😑 (I bought a new one)

    Reply
  60. Muhaimin Khattak

    drones are amazing nice live

    Reply
  61. Anderson C. Freischlag

    My dad has a drone for his construction company and he films the progress.
    He has let me fly it a few times.

    Reply
  62. Angelina

    drones are so cool!

    Reply
  63. Aden Neumyer

    This is so cool.

    Reply
  64. Aprilseamon

    that was cool I love the way that you added drones in it to make it more intreging

    Reply
  65. Cole Nelson

    My sister has a drone with a camera on it and I love to fly it.

    Reply
  66. Brady

    You can do so many things with drones, they have so many purposes, I love that about drones.

    Reply
  67. Carter

    Can playing video games or simulator games make you better with piloting drones?

    Reply
  68. Luna Selene Benard

    My big brother and my dad both got drones at Celebrity Circle, Myrtle Beach.

    Reply
  69. James Hines

    This is very interesting to me because I’m going into drone piloting for the military .

    Reply
  70. Opal McCoy

    How much weight can a drone carry? Also, who came up with the idea of putting two propellers across from each other, going clockwise, and vis versa? I also had no idea that electrons were magnets… I feel like I should have realized that by now! Haha!

    This was very interesting and very very educational. Thank you!

    Reply
  71. Genevieve Roman

    I think it’s so cool that if gravity were to increase even by a little bit, we wouldn’t be able to fly the way we do. It’s so interesting to think about how the gravity on our earth allows us to walk and fly.

    Reply
  72. Evey

    How do you control multiple drones at once ?

    Reply
  73. Isabella

    How do drone shows work with multiple drones?

    Reply
  74. Gunnar Bendorf

    Drones are such cool inventions, and I enjoy hearing from experts about them! 😉

    Reply
  75. tabitha wilson

    i am so excited for the next episode.it was funny too.

    Reply
  76. Isiah Ellis

    Why can’t we attach solar panels to drones?

    Reply
  77. caysen

    that is so cool that it uses magnets

    Reply
  78. kyree

    How was the first magnet discovered.

    Reply
  79. Arianna vincent

    This is great

    Reply
  80. matthew

    how long would a drone fly in a hour

    Reply
  81. Grace

    So cool!! I loved learning about drones!

    Reply
  82. elim

    r-51 is very fun

    Reply
  83. Amelia

    Loved the video!! Drones are cooler then I thought.

    Reply
  84. Ethan Jennings

    What a funny episode!

    Reply
  85. William

    Very interesting! drones are honestly rather cool.

    Reply
  86. Vsevolod Chumachenko

    Dr. John will forever be my favorite Stem teacher! I love the Technology Spotlight that he does!

    Reply
  87. Ryan Uthlaut

    Has anyone noticed that Malachi said “I need to learn some Italian” in the episode on perpetual motion machines, and that he has a book on learning Italian on his desk in this episode?

    Just a fun thought 🙂

    Reply
  88. Isabella White

    I loved this video and learning about drones!

    Reply
  89. callen callen

    drones are cool i like drones

    Reply
  90. Riley Daniel

    Memorization is key in learning!!

    Reply
  91. Adelia

    I didn’t know that drones have cameras to see where they are going.

    Reply
  92. Bradley walker

    I love how it explains everythimg

    Reply
  93. Logan

    Its cool to see how drones work but do you think that in the near future drones would be the main transport or delivery?

    Reply
  94. NGOC DOAN

    WOW! This is so cool, funny and interesting!

    Reply
  95. Max McCall

    how far can a drone go from the remote with out it not being able to function

    Reply
  96. Taelon Dickens

    I had a drone before and now I know why it was able to get lost after going so high after this episode.

    Reply
  97. Max McCall

    Why are there regulations on the neodymium magnets?

    Reply
  98. Carabella Mae Davis

    I really enjoyed learning about drones.

    Reply
  99. Raven Alejandro

    I enjoyed learning how drones fly. My grandfather has one and I have tried to fly it, which is very difficult.

    Reply
  100. Kellyn Pugh

    R 51 was so funny and we had a drone too.

    Reply
  101. Ruth Baldwin

    i find drones very cool and i really like drones

    Reply
  102. Elijah Baldwin

    Drones Are Really Cool I Would be bad at driving it though

    Reply
  103. Llondon Bates

    I love this! Thanks!

    Reply
  104. Libby

    Wow! Drones are actually really cool! I think if i tried to fly one it would crash! 😂

    Reply
  105. lily smith

    if all electrons have a left hand spin then its a magnet. that’s cool

    Reply
  106. Gabriel Chapman

    Wonder what the green drone is? Also, more of the corollas effect? Maybe spelling it wrong.

    Reply
  107. Cleopatra Rohrer

    I think remote control drones are really cool!

    Reply
  108. Varvara

    It was very interesting!

    Reply
  109. Paige Pendergrass

    It was so astonishing to learn about the GPS and its’ purpose.

    Reply
  110. Isabella

    Drones are very fascinating. I find it super cool that you can do so much with them.

    Reply
  111. Cecilia Cutshaver

    How do satellites connect to things on Earth?

    Reply
  112. Cecilia Cutshaver

    How do magnets turn electricity into power?

    Reply
  113. Joy

    Cool

    Reply
  114. Linnea Faulhaber

    are there any predicaments with future developments of drones

    Reply
  115. maylee

    drones are so cool!!!!

    Reply
  116. Griffin Kilchenstein

    Wow! Drones fascinate me so much and this video increased that fascination by like 150%!! Thanks Acellus!

    Reply
  117. tul

    i love drone’s.

    Reply
  118. Nguyen Nhat Minh

    What will future drones look like?

    Reply
  119. Kade Kaufman

    Who decided to add cameras to the drones?

    Reply
  120. Kourtlynn Kaufman

    I vote for 1! the area 51 guy is my favorite!

    Reply
  121. Amber Lilly

    oopsie, I hope this counts as a comment because I forgot to watch the video the other week, and I’m trying to get the scholarship… anyways. As a kid we had a few little drones! They were fun. We had a super tiny one, too, that could fit in your palm.

    Reply
  122. Tarren Pugh

    This is a very fun way to learn about drones.

    Reply
  123. piper

    who invented the first drone?

    Reply
  124. Aberdeen Polomsky

    Someone should tell R51 that his hat is NOT going to make him fly!!!

    Reply
  125. Boston Knight

    I love the science behind the drones you shared, I thought it was really fascinating.

    Reply
  126. Josiah Alkire

    I love drones, they are interesting and amazing! They can do so much, and they will be even better in the future. It’s sad about Tobias drone,
    I would be very upset if I had lost my drone. Thank so much Acellus for making such a cool episode!

    Reply
  127. Bella Ochoa

    Learning about how drones work is so interesting! Great job!

    Reply
  128. Uriah Dorsey

    It would be a wonderful thing if you could also start one for other occupations such as lawyers, doctors, nurses, dancers, film makers, photographer and ect. I would love if you would think about this and perhaps talk a little about it in Science Live. Thankyou.

    Reply

Submit a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recent Episodes

250. All About Snakes

250. All About Snakes

In this episode of Science LIVE, Roger Billings introduces Jeffrey, the ball python! Discover the fascinating world of snakes, from their unique patterns to why ball pythons make such interesting pets. Dr. Billings also reminds students of the importance of respecting these incredible reptiles.

249. The Elements of This World

249. The Elements of This World

What are elements, and how were they discovered? In this episode of Science LIVE, we explore the origins of the periodic table and the fundamental building blocks of our world. Discover how patterns in chemistry shape everything around us and uncover the fascinating science behind the elements that make up our universe.

248. Better Than AI – Natural

248. Better Than AI – Natural

What makes humans irreplaceable in the age of AI? In this episode of Science LIVE, Roger Billings and his team examine the evolution of artificial intelligence and machine learning, exploring its evolution and impact. DrB highlights that while technology has made incredible strides, the creativity and ingenuity of the human mind remain unmatched. Like a diamond with its unique imperfections, our quirks and individuality are what make us extraordinary.