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@floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months ago

MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs

www.livescience.com

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MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs

www.livescience.com

@floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months ago
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Scientists have built a new type of robotic insect that can fly 100 times longer than previous generations.
  • @double_quack@lemm.ee
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    63•5 months ago

    We all know where this is gonna end…

    • @Fandangalo@lemmy.world
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      40•5 months ago

      Surveillance drones everywhere.

      • @double_quack@lemm.ee
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        35•5 months ago

        Surveillance is the “nice” version of it.

        • @Fandangalo@lemmy.world
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          24•5 months ago

          Anal probes everywhere.

          • @double_quack@lemm.ee
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            5•5 months ago

            Exactly! Flying, they are flying everywheeeaaahhhh!

            • @Fandangalo@lemmy.world
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              10•5 months ago

              • @adarza@lemmy.ca
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                10•5 months ago

                DilDrone™

                • @jaemo@sh.itjust.works
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                  2•5 months ago

                  Yeah I was gonna say like why are we even workshopping the name with a winner like that. Get this employee a bonus check!

              • @Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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                2•5 months ago

                Neat a dildo and 4 rotating nipple toys

              • @Cenzorrll@lemmy.world
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                1•5 months ago

                https://abq.news/2022/03/sex-toy-drone-operator-who-terrorized-sheriff-manny-gonzales-mayoral-campaign-runs-for-sheriff/

    • @Thrashy@lemmy.world
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      8•5 months ago

      I’ve low-key started to think the only reason we haven’t seen autonomous hunter-killer drones yet is that nobody’s willing to break the seal, and I’m scared for what happens when somebody finally does.

      • @double_quack@lemm.ee
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        20•5 months ago

        My dear stranger, those already exist, and have been used in war to terminate key individuals.

        We are living the dream.

        • metaStatic
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          key individuals

          Such as Palestinian children

        • @Thrashy@lemmy.world
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          8•5 months ago

          Point me towards systems that don’t have a human in the loop, particularly any that utilize fully-autonomous swarms, and I’ll agree. Scary as the former are, there’s a world of difference between a handful of FPV suicide drones, and a cloud of HL2-Manhack-esque things operating on face-recogniton-guided autopilot.

          • @double_quack@lemm.ee
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            8•5 months ago

            Oh, that’s what you mean… yeah, there are humans behind, but potato potato, swap one brain for another… anyway it is a killing machine that can get you anywhere in the planet.

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        4•5 months ago

        Horizon Zero Dawn looking more eminent any day now.

    • @Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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      4•5 months ago

      Anal

    • @Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee
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      3•5 months ago

      #BugsArentReal

    • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      2•5 months ago

      And it sucks, when you think inside Star Wars, such small drones are used only in medical or expensive surveillance and military applications.

      But in real life it can really be a swarm of things worse than scarabs in The Mummy.

    • @Docus@lemmy.world
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      1•5 months ago

      There is no way these things could spread poison instead of pollen is there?

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