Comment on MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs

double_quack@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Fandangalo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Surveillance drones everywhere.

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  • double_quack@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Surveillance is the “nice” version of it.

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    • Fandangalo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Anal probes everywhere.

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      • double_quack@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Exactly! Flying, they are flying everywheeeaaahhhh!

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• Thrashy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • double_quack@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • Thrashy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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      • double_quack@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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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  • Erasmus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Horizon Zero Dawn looking more eminent any day now.

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  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anal

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And it sucks, when you think inside Star Wars, such small drones are used only in medical or expensive surveillance and military applications.

  But in real life it can really be a swarm of things worse than scarabs in The Mummy.

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• Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  #BugsArentReal

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• Docus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is no way these things could spread poison instead of pollen is there?

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