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Physician Astronaut Scott Parazynski creates FT Aviator drone controller

Techstination feature for Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.    When it comes to designing a better drone controller…who better than a physician astronaut,  with five space shuttle flights and seven space walks to his credit.  Scott Parazynski has done that, summited Mount Everest, is an avid rock climber and has written a terrific chronicle of those adventures titled The Sky Below.     About that drone controller, the FT Aviator…he built it with his start up…Fluidity Technologies…it features a joystick with one handed control of six degrees of motion…and unique tactile feedback…

“And the same technology actually one day  could actually control and power surgical robots.   This is a really powerful way to intuitively move through three dimensional space.”

Parazynski spent 17 years with NASA…and was known as an innovator there.  You can find the FT Aviator at www.Fluidity.tech.

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