When The Drones Come Marching In

Re:When The Drones Come Marching In by nickpinkston on Saturday January 29, 2011 @11:30AM (#2155686)

I'm completely with you, and it could be a great way to get the public interested in (i.e. funding) technology. It reminds me of when auto racing actually led to improvements for street cars. I mean kids already love various robotic cartoons - who wouldn't love the same as a real-life game. Attendance could be a little dangerous though...

Let's hope UPenn's QuadRotor Lab is in the running. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:When The Drones Come Marching In by stcredzero on Saturday January 29, 2011 @04:45PM (#2156481)

A complete enclosed plexiglass arena plus some weight limits and munitions regulations should be enough to keep it safe.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:When The Drones Come Marching In by nickpinkston on Sunday January 30, 2011 @09:28PM (#2160023)

Yea - sounds right to me. Perhaps even kill targets on the vehicles to limit? I'd think we'd get to unkillable bots pretty quickly with aerial ones - maybe I'm wrong though. Reminds me of the spinning blade bots that seemed indestructible...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:When The Drones Come Marching In by stcredzero on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @01:37PM (#2166636)

Only the well engineered spinning blade bots (like Ziggo) were nigh indestructible.

I think a lot of this could be addressed by adding ground targets to go after or protect. I can also imagine lots of munitions which would be hard to just shrug off or dodge, like nylon nets or lasers hitting photocells rigged as cutoff-switches.

[ Parent | on HN ]