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MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs
(www.livescience.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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We all know where this is gonna end...
Surveillance drones everywhere.
Surveillance is the "nice" version of it.
Anal probes everywhere.
Exactly! Flying, they are flying everywheeeaaahhhh!
DilDrone™
Yeah I was gonna say like why are we even workshopping the name with a winner like that. Get this employee a bonus check!
https://abq.news/2022/03/sex-toy-drone-operator-who-terrorized-sheriff-manny-gonzales-mayoral-campaign-runs-for-sheriff/
Neat a dildo and 4 rotating nipple toys
I've low-key started to think the only reason we haven't seen autonomous hunter-killer drones yet is that nobody's willing to break the seal, and I'm scared for what happens when somebody finally does.
They are definitely super willing to break the seal, just nobody has built a good target ID system yet that won't fire on civilians.
If you just need everyone in a 10 mile radius dead, you could send in the hunter bots, or you could just shell the area with heavy artillery from three countries away. We already have that problem solved. Once we have a reliable target ID system I guarantee you'll start seeing unmanned equipment in war.
My dear stranger, those already exist, and have been used in war to terminate key individuals.
We are living the dream.
Such as Palestinian children
Point me towards systems that don't have a human in the loop, particularly any that utilize fully-autonomous swarms, and I'll agree. Scary as the former are, there's a world of difference between a handful of FPV suicide drones, and a cloud of HL2-Manhack-esque things operating on face-recogniton-guided autopilot.
Oh, that's what you mean... yeah, there are humans behind, but potato potato, swap one brain for another... anyway it is a killing machine that can get you anywhere in the planet.
The humans are using ai to pick the targets they kill anyway. They theoretically are supposed to parse out the bad targets, but we know from examples listed in the above, that for genocidal states like Israel, that review is intentionally ignored or minimized.
Horizon Zero Dawn looking more eminent any day now.
Anal
And it sucks, when you think inside Star Wars, such small drones are used only in medical or expensive surveillance and military applications.
But in real life it can really be a swarm of things worse than scarabs in The Mummy.
#BugsArentReal
There is no way these things could spread poison instead of pollen is there?