MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs
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There is no way these things could spread poison instead of pollen is there?
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“We are willing to ignore and downplay the ethical concerns as long as the money keeping coming in”
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-…his mother was completely consumed by robotic bees. So it goes.
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Without a doubt they have those other use cases in mind too. Mentioning them is just not good for marketing in public.
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I guess I'm the only one thinking about how it's inevitable that birds and other animals will mistake them for real insects and die from ingesting these things, god knows what kind of toxic materials they're made of but I'm willing to bet it's not safe to eat them
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The MIT engineers agree. They said something to the effect of "If you could make a robotic bee, it wouldn't replace bees. It would be a terrible idea to try to use them for pollination... Just put that same amount of finding into conservation and researching bees, you would have a much better result."
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They also did this in Spy Kids
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bees can’t be repurposed as weapons.
Capitalism will find a way.
https://cherwell.org/2024/10/18/oxford-scientists-microchip-bees-with-smallest-radar-ever/
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Just today I was watching this video:
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the Borg
Sounds like communism...
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The humans are using ai to pick the targets they kill anyway. They theoretically are supposed to parse out the bad targets, but we know that fir genocidal states like israel, that is being intentionally ignored or minimized.
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They are definitely super willing to break the seal, just nobody has built a good target ID system yet that won't fire on civilians.
If you just need everyone in a 10 mile radius dead, you could send in the hunter bots, or you could just shell the area with heavy artillery from three countries away. We already have that problem solved. Once we have a reliable target ID system I guarantee you'll start seeing unmanned equipment in war.
