well...crap. This makes the AR.Drone ( http://ardrone.parrot.com ) I've secretly been craving for the past couple of months seem utterly boring.
PhD Student gets quadrotor helicopter moving aggressively
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#102Am I the only one who thinks a future filled with robots like this is scary and pretty undesirable?
Speak for yourself, I look forward to joining the resistance and shooting at them all day long.
A crowbar would likely be a more effective method of dispatching them, from prior experience.
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this doesn't answer your question at all, but it's just food for thought: imagine we traveled back in time to the 1960's ... i suppose that people would ask "Serious question, is there anything driving reliable robust nationwide packet-switched data network research besides the defense dept? it always bummed me out that anytime you see something amazing it's inevitably funded by military which can't wait to use it to…
Fair enough, but there's nothing overtly weaponizable about communication technology. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled the money is there to advance the field, I just wish it wasn't coming from a bunch of dickheads trying to strap guns to it. I guess since the conventional wisdoms says pornography is the biggest catalyst for new media adoption, it shouldn't be a surprise that killing people drives the other engineeri…
> I just wish it wasn't coming from a bunch of dickheads trying to strap guns to it.
Dickheads?
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#104Am I the only one who thinks a future filled with robots like this is scary and pretty undesirable?
No, but what're you gonna do? Ban technology?
Limiting unscrupulous funding seems like the better option. There's no reason for DARPA and NIST to be what funds all the coolest tech, it could be some other govt sector.
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So where is this different? And how? Who is funding this outside of the US and for what?
In Japan, they'd like to use robots for earthquake rescue.
The US has similar research: