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They're coming to get you: Drone swarm autonomously tracks human through dense forest - C C - May 5, 2022 https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/5/23058160/drone-swarm-autonomous-navigation-dense-forest-person-tracking INTRO: Scientists from China’s Zhejiang University have unveiled a drone swarm capable of navigating through a dense bamboo forest without human guidance. The group of 10 palm-sized drones communicate with one another to stay in formation, sharing data collected by on-board depth-sensing cameras to map their surroundings. This method means that if the path in front of one drone is blocked, it can use information collected by its neighbors to plot a new route. The researchers note that this technique can also be used by the swarm to track a human walking through the same environment. If one drone loses sight of the target, others are able to pick up the trail. 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... (MORE - details) https://youtu.be/L0fJ0EHHfOA RE: They're coming to get you: Drone swarm autonomously tracks human through dense forest - Kornee - May 5, 2022 Quoting a few pertinent comments below article proper: mr.mtb Absolutely agree! Fortunately, you’d just have to keep them at bay for 10 minutes or so with present battery capacity, which does mitigate the fear a little bit. A little bit. fillerUp the PR is always civilian-friendly. The application is always military. All too true. Extend 'military use' to 'civilian oversight' and one gets the 1984++ picture of what's coming. Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. Globalist wet dream. |