No, not your android phone. But UAVs. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles will be flying around and spying on you and your puny life.

It’s called the DelFlyII, from the Technical University of Delft, and it just got to show its amazing flying paces at the International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition 2010. The robot took a year to design and develop, and it had to meet a number of technical and design requirements in order to vie in the flight games—including fitting inside a sphere with a 30 centimeter radius.

The 16 gram flying droid can fly all the way up to 15 meters per second; it can hover, and fly backwards at up to half a meter a second. According to the team, this means it’s the very first “ornithopter that has such a wide flight envelope without any adjustments” in the aircraft’s aerodynamic configuration. And it can do all of this partly autonomously, navigating its way around and partly under remote control, while delivering wireless video from an on-board webcam.

Check out the demo video of DelFly II in action at the IMAVC, including the complicated indoor mission that involved flying into a mock building, identifying a number of targets, and then completing a safe landing on the roof.

[via Gizmodo]