Parrot has developed a distinctive wing-shaped drone that swoops through the sky at high speed and can be automatically controlled from a smartphone app.

The Parrot Disco will go on sale later in 2016, and a prototype was unveiled on the sidelines of CES in Las Vegas on Monday.

The drone is about a meter in width and 50 centimeters deep, but a foam body means it weighs about 700 grams. That means it’s light enough to be launched by simply throwing it into the air, said Frederic Pirat, a product manager at Parrot.

It’s propelled by a single rotor at the rear and can reach speeds of 80 kilometers per hour (about 50 miles per hour).

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