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Flying surveillance robots coming soon from Aeryon
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| July 29, 2009
| Rafe Needleman
Posted on 07/31/2009 6:41:22 PM PDT by Flavius
Your local police may soon be packing flying surveillance bots. At the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, Aeryon Labs President Dave Kroetsch gave a compelling pitch on his company, which makes a two-pound robot helicopter that has enough on-board intelligence and stability control to allow it to be flown by people who just point to locations on a Google Map-based interface. 
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: happy
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:41:22 PM PDT
by
Flavius
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:43:32 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Flavius
It can’t be any harder to hit than a dove....
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:44:25 PM PDT
by
A.Hun
(Common sense is no longer common.)
To: Flavius
I wonder how they handle buckshot...
Oh wait...that will be perverted into assault on a “police officer” somehow...
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:44:54 PM PDT
by
Crim
To: Flavius
Technology becomes more frightening than fun when the Libs are in charge!
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:47:23 PM PDT
by
divine_moment_of_facts
(“Cap and Trade bill tells us how to live.. Health Care bill tells us how to die.” Bauer and Rose)
To: A.Hun
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:48:50 PM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: A.Hun
Dove are twitchy when they come into a field of milo or a tank. These things hover and move in straight lines at computed speeds between points. They will be MUCH easier to hit.
That's my story, about why my brother skunked me on the last dove hunt, and I'm sticking to it.
/johnny
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:49:27 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: A.Hun
With electric propulsion this one ought to be very quiet in operation and nearly invisible when used for “hover and stare”. And even if they do get hit, vital intel can be gathered at lower risk to troops or cops. Also think about flying gas sensors over a chemical spill, looking into a burning structure for survivors and other non-hostile applications. Cool stuff.
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:50:43 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: Crim
7 1/2 shot (steel, to meet the new feral laws), low brass. No need to reach out, and if you shoot Winchester, a good spread with the field loads.
/johnny
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:51:15 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: JRandomFreeper
I’ve watched those flying b******** stop and make a left turn at full speed...right as I pulled the trigger!
LOL
Little robotic thingys couldn’t rate!
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:52:38 PM PDT
by
A.Hun
(Common sense is no longer common.)
To: Flavius
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:53:17 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(I AM JIM THOMPSON)
To: bigbob
As long as they are watching you, I guess its ok. ;)
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:54:03 PM PDT
by
A.Hun
(Common sense is no longer common.)
To: Crim
You said — Oh wait...that will be perverted into assault on a “police officer” somehow...
—
No doubt about it... it will be an assault on an officer of the law... even if it is made out of tin... :-)
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:54:29 PM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
To: bigbob
Depends on who's flying it, whether it's cool or not, and what the purpose is, and if they have a warrent, BB.
Besides, I'm so deef now that I rely on the dogs to alert me to unlawful intruders. They point, I can click.
/johnny
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:54:35 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: hoosierham
PULL!!I said that at my father in law's funeral when they let some doves fly.......... I wasn't real popular after that.
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:55:39 PM PDT
by
umgud
(Look to gov't to solve your everday problems and they'll control your everday life.)
To: umgud
Don’t worry; God has a great sense of humor,after all He made people!
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posted on
07/31/2009 6:59:05 PM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: Flavius
Just say no to skynet!!!
To: A.Hun
And you pull the breasts out, debone, wrap the meat (what little there is) around a jalepeno, wrap the assembly in bacon, and grill it.
And drink beer, of course. But unless you are poaching big-time, or saved the meat for years, you have to go get steaks so you can have something to eat for supper.
All that for a damn flying heur d'euvre. And I still go, every year.
/johnny
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posted on
07/31/2009 7:00:35 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: Flavius
Not on my tax dollar if the local elected officials wants to keep his job.
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posted on
07/31/2009 7:03:45 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
To: JRandomFreeper
All that for a damn flying heur d'euvre. And I still go, every year. Maybe the most fun hunting of all. The eating, not so much. Good recipe though!
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posted on
07/31/2009 7:14:45 PM PDT
by
A.Hun
(Common sense is no longer common.)
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