Company selling $900 drone equipped with AI camera wants to be your new family videographer

Daily Mail - Science & tech 

If you've ever worried about perfectly capturing your kids next big sporting event, PowerVision, an innovative purveyor of drone and AI technology, has some good news. A new product unveiled by the company at CES in Las Vegas called the Power Egg X, is a new breed of AI-powered camcorder that can be attached to a drone and follow a subject without any human intervention. PowerVision, which has made similar products - previously a larger 4.6 lbs drone-mounted camera - is being billed as multi-function device that can be used as an autonomous AI camera, that can be wielded handheld or via a high-flying drone. A demonstration from the company at CES (pictured above) showed the device's ability to track various kinds of motion including demonstrators doing yoga, swinging and playing basketball Though fixing a camera to a drone is anything but new, it's the technology PowerVision couples with its new system that separates it from the field. With the help of a proprietary algorithm, the PowerEgg X can use facial recognition, deep learning, and a tracking a 170 field of view to track subjects and ensure they're always be in the middle of the video frame, This ability, says the company, would be useful in situations where a subject is in relatively fast motion, like playing sports, dancing, or running.