Ornithopter with morphing-coupled wingbeat pattern [video]
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#2I wonder if this would make a more efficient/effective drone for warfare. Creepy thinking of AI bird drone loitering munitions.
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#3The paper is on arxiv:
“A Novel Actuation Strategy for an Agile Bio-inspired FWAV Performing a Morphing-coupled Wingbeat Pattern”
Re: Ornithopter with morphing-coupled wingbeat pattern [video]
#4This is what I want to see. I get happy from it, it is progress in the right direction. Unlike Boston Dynamics videos which freak me out.
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#5This is what I want to see. I get happy from it, it is progress in the right direction. Unlike Boston Dynamics videos which freak me out.
You don't see the CIA or the police using this?
Re: Ornithopter with morphing-coupled wingbeat pattern [video]
#6I wonder if this would make a more efficient/effective drone for warfare. Creepy thinking of AI bird drone loitering munitions.
This will just result in the extinction of endemic bird species in war zones, and after that be as effective as regular drones.
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#7This is really interesting, but I'm curious about two things:
1. How power-efficient is this compared to a similar-sized quadcopter drone?
2. Is it possible to scale this up to the size of a small airplane (for 2-4 passengers) or even a large commercial airliner?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't see the CIA or the police using this?
A bird? They are already doing blanket signals intelligence. That ship has sailed.
I mean for assasinations. For police, low altitude surveillance is more valuable than high altitude drone or wide area camera on a sattelite.
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#10I wonder if this would make a more efficient/effective drone for warfare. Creepy thinking of AI bird drone loitering munitions.
I remember reading a DARPA document from about a decade ago that proposed drones that could land on power lines and leach power. They proposed drones that changed shape to blend in with whatever technical widgets are already hanging off the power lines. While they were charging they could be used as stationary surveillance stations or nodes in a mesh network.