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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by jdiez17 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:41AM (#29172466)
Totally agreed. I found myself mesmerized watching the short video [1]; wow cool tech, nice views... but there are serious ethical implications for the engineers working on these systems. Let's not forget that our work as technologists does not exist in a vacuum.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4T6Vr4a1hY

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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by Aeolun on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:47AM (#29172902)
To be fair, work on recovering drone aircraft in midair can be employed for a whole lot more than just military purposes.
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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by flipbrad on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:51AM (#29172925)
I could imagine it being useful for search and rescue missions
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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by CaptainJustin on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @06:28AM (#29173515)
Can you imagine how this would the increase the search radius of a air rescue mission? One search and rescue flight looking for survivors could launch a half dozen drones each extending the explored area by thousands of square kilometres per hour.
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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by derekjdanserl on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @07:39AM (#29173980)
How often are drones used for anything of that sort? Any actual examples? Or are you just purely fantasizing?
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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by Aeolun on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @07:50AM (#29174077)
Just found a quick example.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-5...

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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by ceejayoz on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @09:15AM (#29174839)
Drones are pretty quickly being adopted by search and rescue and firefighting organizations. No reason to think that's gonna stop.

https://www.birminghamtimes.com/2021/11/video-drone-rescue-s...

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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by yissp on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @09:15AM (#29174834)
"Search and rescue" seems to be given as the use-case for every new development in robotics. Is it basically a meme in that field by this point?
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