Now that Skydio has exited the consumer drone business and will never sell me the miniature self-flying drone of my dreams, I’m looking to DJI instead. The fancy marketing for its just-announced $759 DJI Mini 4 Pro suggests we’re at least on the way — because it’s the first Mini with omnidirectional obstacle sensing.
2022’s Mini 3 Pro could already see forwards, backwards, and down, but… we crashed it into a tree pretty fast. The binocular vision in every direction is a…