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Aerial Robotics Competition

Posted by michael on from the buzz-bomb dept.

anphilip writes "The annual International Aerial Robotics Competition just wrapped up, and I thought while our teams waited for the results I'd let the folks at Slashdot know about it. At any rate there's a brief story here and the group website is here."

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  1. Army can't do it? by solive1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mike Kennedy (from the article): "These kids are cutting edge. They're doing things the Army can't do yet." What information does he have that says that the Army can't do this yet? Surely the Army doesn't give away all its secrets to this guy.

    1. Re:Army can't do it? by swb · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's not that the Army isn't doing it in some R&D lab, but regular army is pretty constrained by all that bureaucracy.

      It's kind of like how hikers and campers often have gear the regular army doesn't have.

  2. Robotic X-Prize by artlu · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Similar to having an X-Prize, there should be greater monetary rewards for robot evolution. Ie: a biped robot that can beat a human on a mile stretch, etc. Then, maybe we would see some quicker robot evolution!

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  3. Attack Drones by Chagatai · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Someone recently sent a model plane over the Atlantic much in the same manner as these kids. I wonder if terrorists would develop something like this. Imagine, some guy in the Middle East builds forty or fifty of these aircraft, programs them with waypoints, and lets 'em loose. They recharge by day through solar energy and run off of batteries at night. A few days later, Washington DC is surrounded by these planes flying circles over the city en masse, at which point they do something nasty.

    Hey, Congressmen: No amount of legislation would stop this.

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