The very first quadcopter prototype was the Breguet-Richet Gyroplane No. 1, created in 1907 by Breguet Aviation in France. The first consume…

The very first quadcopter prototype was the Breguet-Richet Gyroplane No. 1, created in 1907 by Breguet Aviation in France. The first consumer quadcopter drone was the Parrot AR.Drone, released in 2010 by French company Parrot SA. It was also the first commercially successful mass-market drone, and the first time the word "drone" was used for a consumer product (previously "drone" only referred to unmanned military aircraft in an airplane form factor). This was the starting point of the quadcopter drone era, which is still unfolding.

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