MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs
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We all know where this is gonna end...
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Surveillance drones everywhere.
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I'd rather just have bees.
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Surveillance is the "nice" version of it.
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Anal probes everywhere.
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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!
Flying, they are flying everywheeeaaahhhh! -
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...
