MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs
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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’d rather not have robot bees. I’ve seen hated in the nation (black mirror episode).
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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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Dear technology under capitalism... We just want healthcare, housing, etc... We don't fucking need swarms of robot insects.
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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.
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Fall into me
And drown inside me
I know you will see
The beauty of meAlso, I've seen this episode of Tom Scott.
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oh so you think birds aren't already flying robots? robot bees are just the next step.
/s obviously
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Canada might need these sooner rather than later.
With the breakdown of democracy and the rule of law in America, the Constitution just became wholly unenforceable and therefore irrelevant. That means that Trump could make good on his fever dream of invading Canada.
And there are many Americans who would jump at the chance to obey his command to slaughter Canadians. With only 40M against America’s 334M - and 0.097M military personnel against America’s 2.1M - it would be absolutely no contest.
Our only way of making such a fascist act of aggression as painful as possible would be with asymmetrical warfare using tiny, hard-to-defeat drones that could act independently and strike without warning. Deploy 10k of these suckers onto a battlefield, and the only survivors would be those within sealed armour or flying at high altitude. Because even an A10 Warthog can be taken out if it unexpectedly ingests a half-dozen of the explosive buggers.
