MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs
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The new technology could increase crop yields dramatically without harming the environment.
That's a surprisingly benign use case, I was expecting far worse.
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Exactly!
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Humans are the crops.
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Plot twist: The crop is human misery.
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I've low-key started to think the only reason we haven't seen autonomous hunter-killer drones yet is that nobody's willing to break the seal, and I'm scared for what happens when somebody finally does.
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My dear stranger, those already exist, and have been used in war to terminate key individuals.
We are living the dream.
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But how can techbros get rich from bees? Bees just make themselves for free then serve the greater good, the little buzzing communists.
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The public use case.
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Even birds are starting to seem acceptable
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Point me towards systems that don't have a human in the loop, particularly any that utilize fully-autonomous swarms, and I'll agree. Scary as the former are, there's a world of difference between a handful of FPV suicide drones, and a cloud of HL2-Manhack-esque things operating on face-recogniton-guided autopilot.
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DilDrone
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Looks like they hovered for 1000 seconds. It was previously stress limited such that the joints would break after just a few seconds. I think they might still be tethered for a power source, I haven't seen any of these micro flapping bots include a battery yet, and they didn't mention that they did.
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Because developing a replacement for bees is certainly a better solution then saving the bees...
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Oh, that's what you mean... yeah, there are humans behind, but potato potato, swap one brain for another... anyway it is a killing machine that can get you anywhere in the planet.
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Well then fucking harvest me and get it over with
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In the latest video about this by veritasium, he asked the researcher about ethics concern. the researcher insist that they dont care as humanity can decide for themself.
Meanwhile:
The new report also details the extent of MIT’s partnerships with Israeli military contractors like Elbit Systems, which supplies 85 percent of Israel’s killer drones, and Maersk, one of the world’s largest shipping companies, that has sent millions of pounds of military goods to Israel since the start of the war on Gaza. The Israeli military also sponsored several of the MIT projects with funds provided by the U.S. Defense Department.
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/16/mit-israel-military-funding-research-gaza/
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#BugsArentReal
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Neat a dildo and 4 rotating nipple toys
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That researcher is a real life Dr. Hoenikker. Vonnegut is probably shrugging in his grave
