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Russia Debuts Postal Drone, Which Immediately Crashes Into Wall (futurism.com)
On Monday, Russia's postal service tested a delivery drone in the city of Ulan-Ude, Siberia, -- and it went horribly wrong. According to Futurism, soon after launch it crashed violently into the wall of a nearby building, "turning the UAV into a mess of jumbled parts." From the report: Here was the original plan for Monday's test. The $20,000 drone was supposed to pick up a small package and deliver it to a nearby village, Reuters reports. Instead the device failed spectacularly, only making it a short distance before crashing into a three-story building. The small crowd gathered to watch the test can be heard uttering expletives, according to Reuters. No one was injured in the crash, and it didn't do any damage, except to Russia's pride. The organizers aren't quite sure what went wrong, but they suspect the 100 or so nearby wifi spots could have had something to do with it.
delivered to the scene of the crash
And CNN expects me to believe they "hacked the election"?
Sad!
The US Postal Service will take 8000 of them.
The Russian's built a building so fast the flight control couldn't see it coming?
Seeing the building it incorrectly identified it as the Trump Tower, got emotional and stumbled.
Its software then thought that the building wall was something the drone could make love to.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
Things do indeed appear to have gone very wrong.
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
#DeleteChrome
*crash sound*
Blyat
BLYAT!
What happened to the small package??
It must have been a CIA plot to discredit Putin and embarrass the Russian People. Ask anybody in the Russian media.
Notice the crowd was all men. The women were busy actually doing real work. Here is a tip idiots: you can pay a worker a tenth of that to deliver your stupid mail.
Even post office Drones go postal.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
"...only making it a short distance before crashing into a three-story building"
should read
"...only making it a short distance before being violently destroyed by three story building"
The poor drone probably committed suicide. Would you be happy having to deliver packages in Siberia?
It reminds me of that scene from Robocop 2 when they were testing the new Robocop prototypes.
In Soviet Russia, software bug crashes YOU.
And I thought FedEx was rough on my packages
Meanwhile, the drone I designed and built from scratch from scratch at home, in just a few days, works fine.
It runs open source software called inav on an open hardware controller that costs $35. Inav has multiple fail-safes so if it loses GPS it falls back to a safe 'mission abort" procedure. The exact procedure depends on how far it is from its launch point and the settings I choose.
Did they get their Autopilot from Uber or was it Tesla?
Further proof that something always goes wrong during a live demo, even in Russia.
for stealing the tech from North Korea.
This does not bode well for the nuclear powered cruise missle.
We crash car....we crash drone. Work perfectly
That's funny. If it's like working with the US government, they spent around $8,000 on the RFP and contract. Bidding and handling government contracts is an industry unto itself, and you need experts in government contracting working for you.
Zoom in on the top left window and you'll see a kid holding what looks like a PlayStation joystick.
In USA postal service helps you building a drone. In communist Russia postal service drones a building.
In USA postal helps building your drone. In Soviet Russia postal helps drone your building.
I guess this means systemd has finally reached Russia. Time to sell my gazprom stock.
lucm, indeed.
Ah yes, wonderful, infallible technol--nol--nol--nology--nology--nolo--g--g--g--g--g--g--gy.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
This drone looks like it was programmed by watching the workers at my Post Office. They have the same effect on packages.
This is all very reminiscent of early attempts at flight 100 years ago that featured crowds and officials gathering to watch a revolutionary new technology only for it to embarrassingly fail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Maybe in 20 years time I guess.
I've ordered a kettle bell workout set via drone delivery for tomorrow, what's the worst that can happen?
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
is paved with failures.
Imagine freeing the roads from 50% of traffic, which is dealing with one or another form of delivery.
How many SpaceX rockets have crashed?
Thank you.
You made me laugh out loud. I am taking powerful anti-depressant and it takes a lot to do that.
Wish you a great day sir or madam.
"I'll take "What is Russian for "Oops!"', Alex."
They've crashed loads, they always said they would. They don't care because they keep getting better. AC doesn't understand this, because AC is what we call a 'stupid cunt'.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Has all the putinbots really riled up. More of this please. lol.
If you already knew it worked perfectly, you wouldn't need to test it.
... but they have nuclear cruise missiles? Should we worry?
But Boss, the lab test was a success! The dummy's head did not get chopped off!
That was no dummy!He was the guy holding the drone!
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
No hurt to their pride. Drones are a new technology and we're still trying to grasp how to make them navigate well.
Meanwhile in America they couldn't even build a small walking bridge over a highway, yet we've been doing that for well over a thousand years. Now there's a case of hurt pride.
This is what awaits you in your new Level-5 self-driving car
You have to fail to succeed most of the time. The key is making sure that you can fail often and cheaply.