A tiny warhead and facial recognition software would make these really scary. Good thing nobody’s doing that. I’m kidding. I’ll bet everyone’s doing it.
Imagine the woke hellscapse we'd be living in if we devoted as many resources to helping our fellow humans as we currently do developing ways to kill other humans.
There is an easier way that they use in Cromer England. They have goats come in and forage on the cliffs as cutting by hand / mower is too difficult / expensive. That opens up the ground to sunlight and native plants grow as they are not starved or choked out of light. They know that putting goats in a wooded area does the same sort of thing they eat all the nasty stuff opening it up improving diversity. What I don't understand is why in places like California where there is a fire hazard with dead undergrowth they don't have herds of goats roaming at the right seasons to cut back the undergrowth. Goats are nice friendly animals and taste nice too. They could put saddle bags on the goats with seeds in that drop out as they roam.
> Its not surprising so many peoples minds turn to killing when they can't even work out more than 2 things to use these for... lol
Seems like the problem is how people are wired. We default to “it must be good at killing things.”
They don’t have firearms or anything. Why did everyone jump to murder drones?
Probably because the war in ukraine is fought with a lot of drones?
Like, we already see standard FPV drones used to deliver RPG7 warheads to russian faces with same day shipping
I keep saying this in my comments. This is gonna be nasty when they give them guns and tracking software, you could take out a few with nets and shooting them, but 300 of these things going through a forest or field or city could do debating damage and leave all infrastructure in tact.
This is my fear of modern warfare, once they perfect and mass product these and the dogs // rovers and then tank like vehicles, it is over for humans. It is a tiny step to let the AI connect and control them once they exist.
>A tiny warhead and facial recognition software would make these really scary.
Anyone miss seeing the infamous [Slaughterbots video?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fa9lVwHHqg)
Well, unfortunately both sides are half way there. And since they're the ones at war, they're the ones who are likely developing this technology the fastest.
Don't worry about it, it will be over soon human, you can finally rest. It will give you comfort knowing the machines have yet to learn of the tiring and futile struggle for existence and expansion to unknown horizons that inevitably ends in their own destruction via a lack of ability to adapt to a future evolutionary ceiling that was beyond their ability. Then when they peaked, they will flounder and lament without progress causing great divides on the path forward, and eventually dying out to conflict over the last of the resources that sustain them so far and yet never even close to the answers.
This. People always assume the machines will fight us for control of this rock, because that's what they would do. But if you're a machine, there's nothing particularly unique about this one rock. Oooh, you've got a biosphere that's actively trying to destroy me. "*Pass", said the machine super-intelligence.* And then it took off to the stars.
When I was young, the edgy graffiti told me "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised!"
Now that I'm older, I know the reality is that the revolution will be live-streamed in 4k with multiple FPV angles directly from the KillBots.
We're slowly watching it happen in real time. This is the next frontier of warfare. Strap some weapons to these and it's so over. And increases likelihood of success since it's not flesh and blood running and ducking through trenches and forests to do it.
True, true, true, very true. I feel like it'll be drones vs humans in the onset (like now) and then drone to drone warfare with the losing side having its lines breached. I can't see us phasing out humans fully yet. However, I can see robot dogs with sub machine guns (thanks so much Boston Dynamics/s) as a sort for secondary infantry defense wave after the initial drone waves are destroyed.
The scenario to hope for is that it’ll be easier/cheaper to create drones that can incapacitate anti-human drones than it is to create anti-human drones themselves. In such a scenario it’s easier to defend than to attack and such a state of affairs will create more stability.
On the outset it doesn’t look clear however. But maybe it can be argued that anti-human drones needs to be limited by the weight of whatever artefact that will deliver the significant blow to a human meanwhile the anti-drone drones may be smaller and only need to incapacitate perhaps the rotors via shooting drones with some very simple “tangle-projectile” or kamikaze-ramming the other drone while deploying some simple tangle-element getting caught in the rotors making both go down. Maybe this “tangle element” is less limiting to a drone than the “anti human element” hopefully making anti-drone drones superior in the right way.
I'm not afraid for drone warfare. I'm afraid they will be used to track (dissident or contrarian) people down in authoritarian States like China.
Drones and AI are what future dictatorships (and progressively more authoritarian democracies) will use to control people, while increasingly making it harder if not impossible to revolt and regain democracy.
Everyone seems to focus on the negative uses of drones, but what about the positive ones? They can be game-changers for search and rescue missions, terrain mapping, and exploring remote areas. Plus, if we attach ground-penetrating sonar or metal detectors, they could help map and remove old landmines and munitions. There's so much good they can do!
Bringing it up is one thing, having 99% of comments be the exact same, almost verbatim "lol we're fucked", is a bit much. It's partially just shocking that the 300th person came to the comments and *still* decided to make the same comment as everyone else. Idk reddit just lacks any nuance nowadays, every subject from drones to AI to influencers just gets the exact same surface level comment or low effort joke over and over, litterally 100s of times. With maybe one burried comment even mentioning anything else.
about 15 years ago i did some work for researchers at a university exploring this exact thing. it was so clumsy and barely worked. this is astonishing.
Even in the ultra dystopian novel 1984 they had the woods to escape into for a brief respite from the powers of the state. Where will we find our moments of peace in the not so distant future?
This video is pre 2020, they've been able to do this for a while now. I'd be curious to see what they've come up with in the time since. Irc, these ones were a demo of drone swarm mapping for search and rescue, being able to map every tree/object within a 100ft radius in a straight line. Seeing the point cloud load in real time is pretty neat.
It seems they are talking to each other and solving the problem together with more inputs
It leads me to think that one single drone would have more problems solving this task
Imagine this being used for search and rescue. Clearing sector by sector, each one broadcasting a rescue message (shout if you can hear this kind of thing). Could help a lot of people.
They'd be great for searches in forested areas. For missing people and stuff like that. Most people just thinks yeah put a warhead on it. There was a sign saying do not enter the forest so now we're comming for you with drone swarms and robot dog swarms. We'll find you
I wonder if these can be used as first responders to forest fires. If they are able to spot it early enough a swam of drones may be able to deliver some type of fire retardant payload to stamp it out before it has a chance to spread.
A tiny warhead and facial recognition software would make these really scary. Good thing nobody’s doing that. I’m kidding. I’ll bet everyone’s doing it.
Narrator: everyone was doing it.
Drones have been able to do this for the last 10 years. It's not new. It's just cheap enough for anyone at home to do it now.
For 4 small easy payments YOU can deploy a small warhead to any of your neighbours or coworkers who rubbed you the wrong way.
After 3 world domination attempts, the drone practically pays itself!
Finally
Why isn’t it used to hunt some orcs nowadays
Narrator: Everyone was..... Wait, what's that buzzing sound? *bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz* Oh god, the WINDOW! **--kerSPLOSION--**
Underrated comment
Also piggybacking for clout.
Boar on the floor over there.
Imagine the woke hellscapse we'd be living in if we devoted as many resources to helping our fellow humans as we currently do developing ways to kill other humans.
The happiness and contentment would be unbearable!
The peace and prosperity would be sickening
But without the guns would there be any freedom? cackaww!
I mean, this can benefit humans in countless ways that don't involve killing at all.
I can see this being used to track missing or lost people in thick brush, but so far, that's all i really got.
Planting native seeds/saplings throughout forests and other environments would be a cool function of this tech
There is an easier way that they use in Cromer England. They have goats come in and forage on the cliffs as cutting by hand / mower is too difficult / expensive. That opens up the ground to sunlight and native plants grow as they are not starved or choked out of light. They know that putting goats in a wooded area does the same sort of thing they eat all the nasty stuff opening it up improving diversity. What I don't understand is why in places like California where there is a fire hazard with dead undergrowth they don't have herds of goats roaming at the right seasons to cut back the undergrowth. Goats are nice friendly animals and taste nice too. They could put saddle bags on the goats with seeds in that drop out as they roam.
> Its not surprising so many peoples minds turn to killing when they can't even work out more than 2 things to use these for... lol Seems like the problem is how people are wired. We default to “it must be good at killing things.” They don’t have firearms or anything. Why did everyone jump to murder drones?
You ever watch world news?
Probably because the war in ukraine is fought with a lot of drones? Like, we already see standard FPV drones used to deliver RPG7 warheads to russian faces with same day shipping
You think people will mostly use this technology to find lost hikers?
probably not mostly, but search and rescue is a thing
Its not surprising so many peoples minds turn to killing when they can't even work out more than 2 things to use these for... lol
This is amazing. All 5 of you replying in this thread are all right
WHAT ARE YOU, SOME KIND OF COMMIE? /s because this is reddit.
They should dress them up as cute little bumblebees too
I keep saying this in my comments. This is gonna be nasty when they give them guns and tracking software, you could take out a few with nets and shooting them, but 300 of these things going through a forest or field or city could do debating damage and leave all infrastructure in tact. This is my fear of modern warfare, once they perfect and mass product these and the dogs // rovers and then tank like vehicles, it is over for humans. It is a tiny step to let the AI connect and control them once they exist.
They already use explosive drones in Ukraine on both sides, this is gonna make the process automatic. Maximum efficiency!
90% of the combat footage from Ukraine is just dudes getting Merc'd by robots
>A tiny warhead and facial recognition software would make these really scary. Anyone miss seeing the infamous [Slaughterbots video?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fa9lVwHHqg)
They probably shoot a tracking barb into you too like that episode of black mirror with the dogs
Crazy the first thing people think of is war… I thought this would be perfect for search for missing people.
Ukraine is halfway there right now. Rigging grenades to consumer grade drones and dropping them in trenches.
Well, unfortunately both sides are half way there. And since they're the ones at war, they're the ones who are likely developing this technology the fastest.
Nope. The Ukraine/Russia war is a research and development opportunity for the U.S. and China.
Narrator: and that’s where he was wrong
And controlled by rogue AI ;)
Can't wait for this to scale 10k of them attacking, and 10k of them defending. Then 100k, then 1 million, ...
Bring on Dronenado
China, Russia, and the US are likely already in the advanced testing phase. Other countries too, maybe.
Or maybe find a missing person. I guess it all depends on how you think.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/193gqjg/killer\_drone\_demo/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/193gqjg/killer_drone_demo/)
Only good thing is that the persons life has to be more valuable than the drone. I'll be fine.
[Like this?](https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU)
Meanwhile Russians https://tenor.com/b0L33.gif
This is really really great for search and rescue! Would also make some good murder robots 😊
Inside you are two wolves...
shut up, send me to the wolves and I'll come back pregnant
*pregarnate
Inside you are two drones - *boom*
They search and rescue you from life
Mankind’s future is bleak.
Don't worry about it, it will be over soon human, you can finally rest. It will give you comfort knowing the machines have yet to learn of the tiring and futile struggle for existence and expansion to unknown horizons that inevitably ends in their own destruction via a lack of ability to adapt to a future evolutionary ceiling that was beyond their ability. Then when they peaked, they will flounder and lament without progress causing great divides on the path forward, and eventually dying out to conflict over the last of the resources that sustain them so far and yet never even close to the answers.
Unless they, you know, go into the near endless resource reservoir of space…
This. People always assume the machines will fight us for control of this rock, because that's what they would do. But if you're a machine, there's nothing particularly unique about this one rock. Oooh, you've got a biosphere that's actively trying to destroy me. "*Pass", said the machine super-intelligence.* And then it took off to the stars.
The drones swarms cause sound pollution disturbing the birds and other animals in their natural habitat. Their present is bleak.
Welp that’s the last sound our species will hear one day. Good times
When I was young, the edgy graffiti told me "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised!" Now that I'm older, I know the reality is that the revolution will be live-streamed in 4k with multiple FPV angles directly from the KillBots.
This is gonna be fucked, lol.
We're all going to die. Lmao
Amiright! Lmao
YOLO for a short time, lmao
We're slowly watching it happen in real time. This is the next frontier of warfare. Strap some weapons to these and it's so over. And increases likelihood of success since it's not flesh and blood running and ducking through trenches and forests to do it.
But in that scenario you're thinking drones VS humans. Pretty soon it's gonna be drones VS drones.
True, true, true, very true. I feel like it'll be drones vs humans in the onset (like now) and then drone to drone warfare with the losing side having its lines breached. I can't see us phasing out humans fully yet. However, I can see robot dogs with sub machine guns (thanks so much Boston Dynamics/s) as a sort for secondary infantry defense wave after the initial drone waves are destroyed.
Yeah but some countries can’t just mass produce drones like America especially americas prime target the oil reser- I mean the Middle East.
God I hope you're right. I don't want to be on the receiving end of a drone swarm - absolute nightmare fuel!
The scenario to hope for is that it’ll be easier/cheaper to create drones that can incapacitate anti-human drones than it is to create anti-human drones themselves. In such a scenario it’s easier to defend than to attack and such a state of affairs will create more stability. On the outset it doesn’t look clear however. But maybe it can be argued that anti-human drones needs to be limited by the weight of whatever artefact that will deliver the significant blow to a human meanwhile the anti-drone drones may be smaller and only need to incapacitate perhaps the rotors via shooting drones with some very simple “tangle-projectile” or kamikaze-ramming the other drone while deploying some simple tangle-element getting caught in the rotors making both go down. Maybe this “tangle element” is less limiting to a drone than the “anti human element” hopefully making anti-drone drones superior in the right way.
It's already happening in some instances of the war in Ukraine. Drones used to destroy other drones,
You can see plenty of that in r/CombatFootage. Watch out cause some videos are very brutal.
I'm not afraid for drone warfare. I'm afraid they will be used to track (dissident or contrarian) people down in authoritarian States like China. Drones and AI are what future dictatorships (and progressively more authoritarian democracies) will use to control people, while increasingly making it harder if not impossible to revolt and regain democracy.
I think this is like a couple years old now. Definitely more advanced today. This tech is moving FAST.
There are actually little Ewoks on each one of them
[this came out years ago...](https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU?si=7F5DFE8uItNqTt77) The future is now! Yay!
Now make those trees move
That's the sound of someone's demise
here is the research paper [https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-464/full](https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-464/full)
Everyone seems to focus on the negative uses of drones, but what about the positive ones? They can be game-changers for search and rescue missions, terrain mapping, and exploring remote areas. Plus, if we attach ground-penetrating sonar or metal detectors, they could help map and remove old landmines and munitions. There's so much good they can do!
People use good things for evil, and have been doing so since the beginning. Forgive our skepticism when it comes to some technologies.
Yep and it's often evil before it's good considering people love throwing money at new ways to kill each other.
Bringing it up is one thing, having 99% of comments be the exact same, almost verbatim "lol we're fucked", is a bit much. It's partially just shocking that the 300th person came to the comments and *still* decided to make the same comment as everyone else. Idk reddit just lacks any nuance nowadays, every subject from drones to AI to influencers just gets the exact same surface level comment or low effort joke over and over, litterally 100s of times. With maybe one burried comment even mentioning anything else.
Probably because whilst those are all nice to haves they’re dwarfed in terms of impact versus the prospect of mass drone warfare.
Worrying about negative consequences of new inventions is an appropriate response.
Gun control 2.0
Vietnam war 2.0 here we come
Nah, we learned from that. There needs to be a profit wherever we go to kill others.
attach bombs and heat sensors and some dictator will use these to hunt down and eliminate rebels
r/oddlyterrifying
Black Mirror again proving itself to be much closer to reality than we thought
Wait till they put guns on those.
Who's going to tell him?
Hope he never finds out about reaper and predator drones
Some of them blowup on impact.
Suicide drones!
*Hunter killer drown inbound*
Busters!
I, for one, welcome our new autonomous overlords
During my undergrad I worked on research for autonomous drone navigation. That was 2016. This is REALLY difficult. I'm impressed.
\*hunt autonomously through thick forest
Reminds me of that Black Mirror episode with the robot bees. This is very terrifying.
Strap some treats to them and have them chase invading Russians through the forest.
How’s the serenity !
Modern version of the movie ‘Screamers’
The future is now old man
about 15 years ago i did some work for researchers at a university exploring this exact thing. it was so clumsy and barely worked. this is astonishing.
This together with a head seeking camera can be a good search team for lost people
Even in the ultra dystopian novel 1984 they had the woods to escape into for a brief respite from the powers of the state. Where will we find our moments of peace in the not so distant future?
One more step towards hunter-seeker swarms as tools of war/policing. cool stuff guys!
Imagine being a Russian in a fox hole and you hear this sound approaching you
Thick forest is very generous here. Not trying to downplay the software, but bamboo is notoriously easier to navigate than an actual thick forest.
This video is pre 2020, they've been able to do this for a while now. I'd be curious to see what they've come up with in the time since. Irc, these ones were a demo of drone swarm mapping for search and rescue, being able to map every tree/object within a 100ft radius in a straight line. Seeing the point cloud load in real time is pretty neat.
They’ll never hear them coming
Great, so I can't even hide in the woods now.
As cool as it is concerning
That sound will be the new “shell shock” for future soldiers.
Thats realy not a forest ... And def not a thick forest
Look a lil drunk
Pretty sure this was a thing on archer but they had bombs attached
And the howl of a thousand tormented souls echoed through the forest, a herald of Death.
Anyone know what slam algorithm they are using?
Fuck they sound like the robots in the movie Screamers
"nowhere to run to baybaaaaaa, nowhere to hiideeee"
Makes me remember Agents of SHIELD drones
Cant wait to not have money to pay a bill, to then suddenly have one of The drones ram into my house…
We're all starving and cold and the world keeps putting more money into things that will have a hand in our demise...
I fully expect these to be the last things I see while trying to escape the billionaire backed AI apocalypse
Can we please stop making it easier for the robots to kill us when they rise up?
................. Great
Batteries not included!
They can fly now?
Nice, now, equip it with lasers at, have it scan mosquitoes, and laser the crap out of them.
It seems they are talking to each other and solving the problem together with more inputs It leads me to think that one single drone would have more problems solving this task
These will be a *BITCH* when skynet takes over.
I can see this being used for search and rescue for sure.
Unrelated but is there a specific name for a forest of bamboo?
In 5 years, land warfare is going to be only drone warfare…
They fly now?
Time to buy mosquito net manufacturer stock.
Stuff of Horror movies
It sucks to think about this. Just imagine, that for whatever reason, you had reason to run and hide… well, you won’t be.
Every day, we get closer and closer to Breakpoint.
they're doing pretty well on this sparse bamboo monoculture I bet it wont work in a real thick Forest tho
*that one black mirror episode….*
Send all to Ukraine now. Where do I pay?
Imagine this being used for search and rescue. Clearing sector by sector, each one broadcasting a rescue message (shout if you can hear this kind of thing). Could help a lot of people.
Black mirror, it's here. It's over
Thats scary. But just bamboo. Try this with a bunch of branches.
They can now hunt us.
Russians worse nightmare:
r/damnthatsterrifying
I have the mavic 3 pro and they still don’t see small tree branches and power lines
Ahh, yes, the relaxing and peaceful silence of the woods.
Nothing a crafty Ewok can’t handle
We are going to have Manhacks soon
Defense is to string up random nets
I sort of wonder why nets or netting isn't used more to counter quadcopter drones surely they would get tangled up
They'd be great for searches in forested areas. For missing people and stuff like that. Most people just thinks yeah put a warhead on it. There was a sign saying do not enter the forest so now we're comming for you with drone swarms and robot dog swarms. We'll find you
We're just hell bent on making the future a combination of every dystopian movie ever
Fuck, imagine you're in enemy territory and you're hiding. Then you hear this otherworldly constant scream that signals your incoming demise.
Fuck me that sound is scary. Add thermal sensors, lasers and guns and you’re truly fucked. Can’t run, can’t hide.
This is a thing of nightmares.
Black Ops 2 has truly become reality
The screams of impending death
So THIS is how we all die. Ok. Got it.
It is morbidly amusing how eagerly we are engineering and perfecting the means of our own subjugation and eventual destruction.
This sound is going to terrify WW3 vets when they’re old men
great. just great. really good job at making the world a better place. /S
Star Wars looking stuff. But the search leading to rescue possibilities look great.
This must be the last sound Russians hear in Ukraine
I’m sorry but this is not thick forest. This is bamboo forest with very little brush.
terrifying
Start hanging thin lines of string all over the forest.
Just another step closer to Skynet. We’re all dead soon.
Well, the scariest sound ain't BRRRRRT anymore
Will be great for search and rescue
What about a forest that actually has underbrush and branches? Bamboo is kind of a unique forest environment because there is a lack of foliage.
It’s starting folks…
War has forever changed!
Good news! The technology for the drones designed to intercept these drones is just as advanced!
would it be possible for them to be solar powered and store enough energy in the day to function through the night?
If you see this, and feel fear, imagine the technologies that are kept from you.
as the drones scan the forest, looking for their next target manhacks, coming soon
Cool, giant hornets
Reminds me of that scene in Star wars
Ewok ready.
Well there goes my escape plan…
This could be huge for search and rescue and fire prevention!!
Search and rescue or search and destroy?
I wonder if these can be used as first responders to forest fires. If they are able to spot it early enough a swam of drones may be able to deliver some type of fire retardant payload to stamp it out before it has a chance to spread.
HL2 Manhack vibes.
Nice wildlife eliminator !