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Russia Debuts Postal Drone, Which Immediately Crashes Into Wall (futurism.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the life-comes-at-you-fast dept.

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.

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  1. Fake News by sexconker · · Score: 3, Funny

    And CNN expects me to believe they "hacked the election"?

    Sad!

    1. Re: Fake News by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 2

      Well, if they're as skilled at other forms of destruction and chaos, why not?

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    2. Re:Fake News by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 2

      We're going to build a wall and Russia is going to crash into it.

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  2. Well then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The US Postal Service will take 8000 of them.

    1. Re:Well then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      So then they can help deliver Amazon products.

  3. What's your take on this, Russian trolls? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Russian's built a building so fast the flight control couldn't see it coming?

  4. The Russian drone's AI was confused by greencfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seeing the building it incorrectly identified it as the Trump Tower, got emotional and stumbled.

  5. The Drone Drank Too Much Vodka Before Takeoff by dryriver · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its software then thought that the building wall was something the drone could make love to.

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  6. Reuters link has video by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Things do indeed appear to have gone very wrong.

    https://www.reuters.com/articl...

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    1. Re:Reuters link has video by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 2

      Given how fast the drone was going, they’re fortunate it didn’t go through either of the windows on either side of the point of impact! There could’ve been serious injuries.

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    2. Re: Reuters link has video by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 2

      Maybe they forgot to reconfigure the military firmware to tell it not to destroy things? ;)

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  7. LOL by Archfeld · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even post office Drones go postal.

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    errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
    1. Re:LOL by jwhyche · · Score: 2

      Came for the postal jokes. leaving happy.

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      I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
  8. Re:Meanwhile my homemade $200 drone works by Curtman · · Score: 4, Funny

    You act like someone lost $20,000 building this drone.. No, no, no.. Someone made $19,600 building this $400 drone.

  9. Re:it works! by Mr0bvious · · Score: 2

    "Russia" Debuts Postal Drone..

    How is this "Russia", because it happened in "Russia"?

    The headline makes it sound like Putin has enacted a plan to deliver everything via multi-copters.

    Looks like "some Russian dudes" attempted a delivery, that failed.

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    Never happened. True story.