They are going to kill us all! :)

[sandbender]

Mini flying robots that show some remarkable skills.

[video=youtube;pp89tTDxXuI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded& v=pp89tTDxXuI[/video]

Does anyone else look at this and think, ten, maybe fifteen years before these things are hunting us through the ruins of the world?

Heads up to boingboing for the original link.

 

[greensurfingbear]

No fate but what we make for ourselves.....cue the music.. Dun dun dun dunnnn


Orric

 

[mrcharly]

It's probably the future of warfare.

Movies usually have giant robots rampaging through cities.

Swarms of mini helicopters would be far more scary and lethal.

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

And policeing, in the USA they are already using Drones to support police forces and it's starting to get a little heated on some sides.

 

[wicca]

There's an excellent Norwegian invented/produced micro 'copter being used by the British Army abroad at the moment. Fitted with a camera it's being used to recce villages and compounds and is already credited with spotting potential ambushes and IED's. So at the moment those overgrown Midges are friendly..

 

[Dave]

That is some scary S***
Thankfully I probably wont be around to see it.

 

[Goatboy]

I have one thing to say on the using mini drone 'copters to hunt me down... PULL!

 

[santaman2000]

That is some scary S***
Thankfully I probably wont be around to see it.

Actually you probably will. Think about how fast aviation's developped so far. We went from the first flight at Kitty Hawk all the way to the moon in the lifetime of a single generation. And now we have the aid of powerful computers.

 

[santaman2000]

I have one thing to say on the using mini drone 'copters to hunt me down... PULL!

LOL. They're already being sucessfully used against enemies with much better weapons than a shotgun. But the goal of miniaturization is to get them down to the size of a bug so you won't even notice them there.

 

[Goatboy]

Actually you probably will. Think about how fast aviation's developped so far. We went from the first flight at Kitty Hawk all the way to the moon in the lifetime of a single generation. And now we have the aid of powerful computers.

Yup, Yuri Gagarin was 14 years old when Orville Wright died in 1948 and 13 years later he was the first man in space.

I was just having a bit of fun on the PULL front, these things can loiter out of audible and visual range and that's whats scary.

 

[santaman2000]

Yup, Yuri Gagarin was 14 years old when Orville Wright died in 1948 and 13 years later he was the first man in space.......

My grandmother was a young girl when her parents read about the Wright brothers' first flight to her from the newspaper. She sat on the couch with me as we watched live tv of the moon landing.

 

[santaman2000]

.....I was just having a bit of fun on the PULL front, these things can loiter out of audible and visual range and that's whats scary.

And the technology is relatively young.

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

My grandmother was a young girl when her parents read about the Wright brothers' first flight to her from the newspaper. She sat on the couch with me as we watched live tv of the moon landing.

You know moments like that are just mind blowing to me, she can recall the news of men flying for the first time in a heaver than air craft, to seeing men walk on the moon. I wonder if I will be fortunate enough to have something like this happen in my life time.

 

[Goatboy]

You know moments like that are just mind blowing to me, she can recall the news of men flying for the first time in a heaver than air craft, to seeing men walk on the moon. I wonder if I will be fortunate enough to have something like this happen in my life time.

Think about it Scouse monster, the internet was started in the 70's but didn't really come to the form we know 'till 1991 that's 22 years. Think how much it has changed our world, perceptions and way of life. Probably more than flight or the moon landings.

 

[Elen Sentier]

I have one thing to say on the using mini drone 'copters to hunt me down... PULL!

Yup !!! makes a whole new take on clays !!!

 

[bearbait]

I need one of these Aeryon Scouts. Slight problem is I'm that several tens of thousands of dollars short. Must see if I have some gear to sell. Hmmmmm...

 

[mcniac]

This made me remember about "Second Variety" from Phillip K Dick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety
and I need two of three of these to tinker around

Esteban

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

Think about it Scouse monster, the internet was started in the 70's but didn't really come to the form we know 'till 1991 that's 22 years. Think how much it has changed our world, perceptions and way of life. Probably more than flight or the moon landings.

Your very right on that in my life time it's gone from a small neich item to lives in my pocket, I have had net access longer than most but I have blown many friends away when I have shown them my 3D printer possibly a few years away from order and print for a shocking number of day to day items.

 

[Robbi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQIMGV5vtd4&feature=player_embedded

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

That formation flying is mind blowing, they are seriously nice bit's of kit.