Written by Mike Murphy

For the last few years at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, the south hall of the main convention center has been home to drones, robots, 3D printers, and other emerging technology trends. This year, 3D printers were relegated to a small section behind the massive auto area in the convention center’s north hall, robots milled around generally being useless, and the drone displays felt considerably smaller than in recent years.

That could partly be because of recent contractions in the drone market. Just as this year’s show got underway, GoPro announced it would abandon the drone business a year after trying and failing to crack it open. Parrot, one of the early leaders in the consumer drone market, didn’t even have a booth this year. About all that was left was DJI, the Chinese manufacturer that makes some of the most popular drones (although actual sales numbers are hard to come by), and a bunch of companies trying to copy DJI.

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