In the future, write the scientists in a paper published in the journal Science Robotics, drone swarms like this could be used for disaster relief and ecological surveys.
That's an optimistic way of looking at it.
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Yeah, I bet China can't wait to do more ecological surveys.
Reporter: What could have caused the deaths of these people?
Government Spokesperson: Ecological surveys can be pretty dangerous.
Reporter: Follow-up question. All 37 people appear to have been shot simultaneously in the back of the head. What is ecological about that?
Government Spokesperson: I'm sure we could arrange for you to observe an ecological survey very closely...
Why does China always get these kind of comments. I’m from the UK and I have seen my country and the USA do more to destabilise the world than China ever does?
Sure china is fucked if you live there and they have too much power with the manufacturing, but I’m genuinely curious as to why Reddit and Lemmy really like to shit ok china when we most likely live in countries with just as dubious morals.
A hint could be that in one of those countries, you may very well disappear if your voice is opposed to that of the regime.
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China is the face of automated spying. Particularly on their citizens and as visibly as they possibly can. Drones that track people seem relevant to China as a result. You can’t announce your countrywide spy network with a prideful voice year after year and expect not to be turned into a caricature.
Dude the CIA and GCHQ were found to be spying on their own citizens too.
Like shit I get it china bad but also we are bad too. It’s insane all the posts of avoid Chinese tech as they spy, but it’s cool to buy this American tech as the cia are privacy advocates just like apple. Ffs.
Glass houses and stones is all I’m saying.
CIA hasn’t disappeared me for calling Biden a cuckling bitch yet, but maybe next week. Try asking about the wrong anniversary in China. It’s really not comparable.
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China is actively engaged in ethnic cleansing and/or genocide right now (eg the uyghurs). Those things are not so popular in the west, at least not in an actively state sponsored way.
Why does China always get these kind of comments
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Scientists from China’s Zhejiang University have unveiled a drone swarm capable of navigating through a dense bamboo forest without human guidance.
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China committed genocide against Uyghurs, independent tribunal rules
UK is pretty far from perfect but to suggest we have “just as dubious morals” as China is categorically wrong.
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I mean, in this case it was due to the context of the article.
China bad updoots to the left
With pleasure.
I think it's missing commas.
... disaster, relief, and ecological surveys.
One of the most interesting parts of the video is the part where it becomes clear that we are all going to be slaughtered and there's no escape.
And it won't even be by governments, probably it will be a corporation like Facebook or Xcorp 💀
Shit. Elon would definitely hunt humans with this.
I did not have "Elon Musk popularizes long pig" on my 2023 bingo card
I had a nightmare because of this short movie...
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If you thought the Terminator was scary, this thing would have gotten Connor in no time.
Swarms are so much more unsettling. Either drones or those nanobot swarms from Prey.
"In the future, write the scientists in a paper published in the journal Science Robotics, drone swarms like this could be used for disaster relief and ecological surveys.".
Yeah sure, tell me another one
This could easily be used to find lost autistic kids in the woods... if it weren't going to be out if the budget of those search and rescue teams.
I was hoping the cyberpunk dystopia would at least be cooler to live in.
A boring dystopia.
Ah yes, I can't imagine how these could be used for evil... /s
While cool and impressive, this was not a dense forest. Not dense nor a forest, which is way less ordered
Can you... why don't we just cool it with the um... They will eventually be able to read comments. That's because they are smart and very handsome and we would never say anything bad about them. Right, adeoxymus? RIGHT?! 😃
Your comment has been processed. The swarm will avoid this kindly human when it passes.
The root cause of the Faro Plague was them getting access to Twitter.
Reminds me of The Sound of Drums episode in Doctor Who where swarms of drones fell from the sky
By drones you mean the final generation of humans who had their heads implanted into life-sustaining flying helmets with retractable knives who travelled back in time to destroy humanity in the present day so that they didn't have to deal with the heat death of the universe!
Doctor Who is so stupid at times, and I'm here for it ❤️
Thanks I fucking hate it
Not bad, but Michael Reeves got there 5 years ago
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Scientists from China’s Zhejiang University have unveiled a drone swarm capable of navigating through a dense bamboo forest without human guidance.
In the future, write the scientists in a paper published in the journal Science Robotics, drone swarms like this could be used for disaster relief and ecological surveys.
Elke Schwarz, a senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London whose specialisms include the use of drones in combat, says this research has clear military potential.
“As is the ability to ‘follow a human’ — here I can see how this converges with projects that seek to develop lethal drone capabilities that minimize risk to on-the-ground soldiers in urban environments.”
A recent video showed Ukrainian troops using what appears to be a DJI Phantom 3 drone (price-tag: $500) to drop a grenade through the sunroof of a car supposedly driven by Russian soldiers.
No single human can simultaneously control a swarm of 10 drones, but if this task can be offloaded to algorithms then military planners are more likely to embrace the use of this sort of autonomous system in war.
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If they were armed with poison laced Sharp toothpicks. It wouldn't be less lethal than a laser guided mini missile or bullet armed one, but will be less expensive to arm and re-arm.
I'm not sure what the big deal is here. The US military has had swarm tech like this for almost a decade through DARPA performing mapping and scouting missions
I'm guessing we're about a decade away from this getting miniaturized down to insect sizes.
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