Posts tagged "drones"

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Remember, “Don’t be evil.” joshbyard: Google Investing in Drone Autopilot Systems Google’s venture capital arm announced yesterday that it is investing $10.7 million in a company that makes drone brains. The company, Airware, builds autopilots for unmanned aerial systems. Because space and weight are at a premium on drones, especially small ones, Airware’s systems can get pretty tiny—one model weighs 32 grams, or about the same as a pocketful of coins. Airware made news in January (under their previous name of Unmanned Innovations, Inc.) when a Kenyan wildlife conservation group purchased one of its drones to fly over a nature preserve and watch for poachers. (via Google Bets $10.7 Million On Drone Intelligence | Popular Science)

Remember, “Don’t be evil.”

joshbyard:

Google Investing in Drone Autopilot Systems

Google’s venture capital arm announced yesterday that it is investing $10.7 million in a company that makes drone brains. The company, Airware, builds autopilots for unmanned aerial systems.

Because space and weight are at a premium on drones, especially small ones, Airware’s systems can get pretty tiny—one model weighs 32 grams, or about the same as a pocketful of coins.

Airware made news in January (under their previous name of Unmanned Innovations, Inc.) when a Kenyan wildlife conservation group purchased one of its drones to fly over a nature preserve and watch for poachers.

(via Google Bets $10.7 Million On Drone Intelligence | Popular Science)

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xkcd: AirAware

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Sending a drone to terminate ocean pollution is my kind of robot. 

Source: nexpected.com
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“When it comes to the development of international law, how can we as human beings, accept, as we have done today, weapons that are not operated by human beings? We have weapons that are operated by robots. The question is how robots make distinction between combatant and civilian population? So, there are fields where the adaptation of international law is very important because technology is advancing and laws have got to adapt to its changes and sophistication as the spirit remains the same.”

Zoran Jovanovic, International Committee of the Red Cross

(via The Guardian)
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“We’re going into a different world, unchartered. And, like it or not, what people can do or governments can do is different, and you can to some extent control, but you can’t keep the tides from coming in. We’re going to have more visibility and less privacy … it’s not a question of whether I think it’s good or bad. I just don’t see how you could stop that because we’re going to have them.”

NYC Mayor Bloomberg on the inevitable drone uprising

(via WOR 710)
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“We don’t believe that there are actually any federal statutes that would provide limits on drone surveillance in the United States. The privacy laws that do exist are very targeted [and] don’t encompass the type of surveillance that drones are able to conduct.” Amie Stepanovich, director of the Domestic Surveillance Project (via CNET News)
Source: CNET
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“The sky’s going to be dark with these things.”

Chris Anderson, on domestic drone growth

(via NYTimes.com)
Source: The New York Times
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poptech: Motherboard is hosting “Drone Day” at SXSW. Check it out.  With everyone at SXSW standing in line for something, it should make targeting much easier for the drone swarm.

poptech:

Motherboard is hosting “Drone Day” at SXSW. Check it out. 

With everyone at SXSW standing in line for something, it should make targeting much easier for the drone swarm.

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The drones swarm through alleys, crawl across windowsills, and perch on power lines. One of them sneaks up on a scowling man holding a gun and shoots him in the head.

Skynet, is that you?

(via The Atlantic)

Source: The Atlantic
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VIDEO: WPEC Aerial Drone Attacked by Bees - TVSpy

The bees are ready to defend us against the robot army.