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Snatched by Quadrotor

ercoerco Posts: 20,256
edited 2014-01-03 07:02 in General Discussion
Just another reason to fear drones: swooping in and grabbing your precious <insert your worst fear here>.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/today-in-terrifying-drones-a-quadcopter-with-a-claw-for-snatching/274073/

Comments

  • doggiedocdoggiedoc Posts: 2,241
    edited 2014-01-02 18:00
    Having just seen the second Hobbit movie I must say "Me Precious".
  • frank freedmanfrank freedman Posts: 1,983
    edited 2014-01-02 20:20
    Nah, only need worry if you are either warg or orc........... or conservative......
  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    edited 2014-01-03 06:09
    About a decade ago we planted an apple tree in our back yard. We didn't want the tree to take up a lot of space in the backyard so we purchased an "apple tower". It pretty much just grows vertically. This last summer there were apples to high up the tree to reach with our tall ladder. I thought picking the apples would have been so much easier (as I visualized it in my brain) if I would just install some sort of robotic claw to my quadcopter.

    I'd probably need some sort of couterbalance to extend from the quadcopter in the opposite direction of the claw.

    I could make the claw able to rotate and use it to change light bulbs too.

    I can see it so clearly in my minds eye.

    I've sure it would be easy to build.

    (I used italics since the forum doesn't appear to have a sarcastic font.)
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2014-01-03 06:12
    You don't need a claw to pick Apples, just steel propeller blades and a hard hat...
  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2014-01-03 06:27
    Gadgetman wrote: »
    You don't need a claw to pick Apples, just steel propeller blades and a hard hat...

    Applesauce straight from the tree!

    C.W.
  • blittledblittled Posts: 681
    edited 2014-01-03 07:02
    Hollywood is also getting into drones. I read a review on the new RoboCop movie and in the movie the corporation that made RoboCop is replacing police with drones with the idea that the corporation will control everything through the drones! So maybe the claw will be useful to pick up hoodlums and deliver them to jail :)
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