Scary: The Future Of Micro Air Vehicles
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 22 of June , 2009 at 5:06 am
This is obviously just a concept, but the scary thing about this video is that we’re far closer to robots like this being a reality than you might necessarily realize. Tiny flying bots? We’ve seen them. Optic flow navigation? Seen it. Robots that can both fly and crawl around? Seen that, too. Not to mention the actual cyborg insects. And that’s all stuff that’s available to the public, who knows what they’ve got goin’ on out in some windowless lab buried under the Nevada desert. So yeah, we’ll just have to wait and see, but I do know one thing for sure: it’s gonna be a bad time to be a sniper without some industrial strength bug repellent.
[ Air Force Research Lab ] VIA [ FlightGlobal ]
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Category: Biorobotics, Concepts, Military, Security
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Comment by Joey1058
Made Tuesday, 23 of June , 2009 at 3:53 pm
And who is to say that these aren’t already being used in our own airspace? I laugh when people complain about privacy rights. Those days are long behind us. “If you don’t want bugs, keep your hands clean.” This applies to more than just sanitary practices, folks…..