#autonomous drones

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The integration of AI in drone technology is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. From enhanced navigation to autonomous operations, AI is transforming the way drones are used across various industries.

Curious about the future of drones? Let’s dive into how AI is leading this revolution!

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5G-Powered Drones: Ericsson, Qualcomm And Dronus Collaboration In Developing Autonomous Drone Solutions

5G mmWave technology for industrial use. Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Dronus Collaboration in developing autonomous drone solutions. The world of industrial automation is on the cusp of a revolution, and at the forefront is a powerful combination, of 5G technology and autonomous drones.  A recent collaboration between Ericsson, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., and Dronus provides a glimpse into this exciting future.

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Will Autonomous Drones Replace Drone Pilots?

The Rise Of Autonomous Drones

Autonomous drones are all the rage these days. They can fly, navigate, and complete tasks without human intervention. From delivering packages to surveying lands, these drones are transforming industries. But does that mean they will replace human drone pilots? Not so fast.

Why Pilots Are Still Important

Despite the advancements, drone pilots are not going anywhere. Human touch is crucial. Pilots bring creativity and problem-solving skills to the table. Autonomous drones follow algorithms, but they cannot adapt like humans can. Imagine a drone stuck in a tree. A pilot can quickly figure out a solution, but a drone might just stay stuck.

Safety First

Safety is another reason pilots are irreplaceable. Autonomous drones rely on sensors and software. Any glitch can lead to accidents. Human pilots can take over in emergencies, ensuring safety. Human pilots also handle complex environments better, like crowded cityscapes or unpredictable weather.

The Best Of Both Worlds

The future is not about choosing between drones and pilots. It is about combining their strengths. Autonomous drones can handle routine tasks, while pilots manage complex missions. This partnership increases efficiency and reduces costs. Plus, it creates more job opportunities. Pilots can now focus on strategy and planning, leaving mundane tasks to drones.

Training And Expertise

Pilots need training and expertise to operate drones. Autonomous drones still require human oversight. Pilots ensure that drones follow regulations and perform optimally. As technology evolves, the role of pilots will shift but remain crucial.

The Final Answer

So, will autonomous drones replace drone pilots? No. They will work together, creating a powerful synergy. Autonomous drones enhance efficiency, but pilots provide an irreplaceable human touch. The future looks bright with this dynamic duo leading the way.

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Autonomous Window Delivery Drones

I imagined an invention for delivering take away food to high-rise apartments or business offices in built up city environments.

customers buy a delivery device from a retailer which they can attach and detach from the outside of an open window. the attachment to the window is accepting of an autonomous incoming delivery drone. the delivery drone is part of a delivery service from partaking food suppliers.

a customer orders food. the supplier attaches the order to the delivery drone. the drone takes off vertically to a safe height then navigates towards the delivery device of the awaiting window. when the drone arrives at the window it hovers, unhooks its delivery, attaching its parcel to the awaiting window device. no need for landing. no need to use elevators or stairs. no hassle. the drone then returns to the food service provider it arrived from - lowering vertically onto its return location.

this business start-up would supply both the drones to the takeaway retailers providing the food plus the window attachments to the city retail outlets providing for customers.

high-rise office building businesses and high-rise private home customers would be the target consumer

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CAPTCHAs tech companies exploiting free labor to train AI vision for defense contractors military drones and autonomous weapons

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Apas-95 doing posts about how they are right about what it takes to train with firearms and getting workers military training while having never shot a gun in their life is really funny. What's kind of less funny is that they openly encourage people to commit felonies that would land any leftist training group in jail for 20+ years and bar them from ever handling firearms again. If they aren't an idiot they're a cop.

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it’s clear that the future 3 branches of military will have to designate a drone division which might eventually morph to t2 division.

you think nuke is apocalyptic? wait till you live the skynet future. the autonomous drone future is really a virtual nano nuke.

here’s why it’s a nano nuke. nuke is about range of destruction to kill as many living beings as the blast can reach and destroy any physical structure within a very large radius.

and nuke is triggered by spontaneous chain reactions. there’s no escape in the blast radius other than a very deep bomb shelter.

autonomous drone like what we imagined in terminator movie or black mirror will just have chain reaction of instantaneous relay of geo location, target acquisitions, and surgical nano strikes but no true range limit. every elimination leads to next target like spawn kill.

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Fruit flies could hold the key to building resiliency in autonomous robots - Technology Org

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/fruit-flies-could-hold-the-key-to-building-resiliency-in-autonomous-robots-technology-org/

Fruit flies could hold the key to building resiliency in autonomous robots - Technology Org

Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Floris van Breugel has been awarded a $2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to adapt autonomous robots to be as resilient as fruit flies.

Resiliency in autonomous robotic systems is crucial, especially for robotics systems used in disaster response and surveillance, such as drones monitoring wildfires. Unfortunately, modern robots have difficulty responding to new environments or damage to their bodies that might occur during disaster response, van Breugel wrote in his grant application. In contrast, living systems are remarkably adept at quickly adjusting their behavior to new situations thanks to redundancy and flexibility within their sensory and muscle control systems.

Scientific discoveries in fruit flies have helped shed light on how these insects achieve resiliency in flight, according to van Breugel. His project will translate that emerging knowledge on insect neuroscience to develop more resilient robotic systems.

“This is a highly competitive award on a topic with tremendous potential impact, which also speaks of the research excellence of the investigator and Mechanical Engineering at UNR,” Petros Voulgaris, Mechanical Engineering department chair, said.

This research aligns with the College of Engineering’s Unmanned Vehicles research pillar.

Engineering + flies

The intersection of engineering and flies long has been an interest to van Breugel.

“As an undergrad, I did research where my main project was designing a flying, hovering thing that birds or insects vaguely inspired,” he said. “Throughout that project, I realized that the hard part, which was more interesting to me, is once you have this mechanical thing that can fly, how do you control it? How do you make it go where you want it to go? If it gets broken, how do you adapt to that?”

Van Breugel says he is examining how “animals can repurpose or reprogram their sensorimotor systems ‘on the fly’ to compensate for internal damage or external perturbations quickly.”

Working with van Breugel on the grant are experts in insect neuroscience, including Michael Dickinson, professor of bioengineering and aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology (and van Breugel’s Ph.D. advisor) as well as Yvette Fisher, assistant professor of neurobiology at U.C. Berkeley. Both have pioneered aspects of brain imaging in flies in regards to the discoveries and technology in the field that van Breugel is utilizing in this research project. Also on the project: Bing Bruton, associate professor of biology at the University of Washington, who brings her expertise in computational neuroscience.

The importance of flies in the realm of both engineering and neuroscience stems from the combination of their sophisticated behavior together with brains that are numerically simple enough that they can be studied in detail. This “goldilocks” combination, van Bruegel said, makes it feasible to distill properties of their neural processing into fundamental engineering principles that can be applied to robotics systems. 

As part of the grant, research experiences will be offered to middle school, high school and undergraduate students to participate in both neuroscience and robotics research. Van Breugel and his team also will develop open-source content to help bring neuroscience fluency to engineering students. This aligns with the College of Engineering’s Student Engagement operational pillar.

Source: University of Nevada, Reno

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[Drone Drilling and Balloon Zapping Challenge] Q300, a full open-source drone platform, accurately visually recognizes circles and balloons, easily traverses circles, and accurately zaps balloons!

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Further Thoughts on the "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights"

So with the job of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy director having gone to Dr. Arati Prabhakar back in October, rather than Dr. Alondra Nelson, and the release of the "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights" (henceforth "BfaAIBoR" or "blueprint") a few weeks after that, I am both very interested also pretty worried to see what direction research into "artificial intelligence" is actually going to take from here.

To be clear, my fundamental problem with the "Blueprint for an AI bill of rights" is that while it pays pretty fine lip-service to the ideas of  community-led oversight, transparency, and abolition of and abstaining from developing certain tools, it begins with, and repeats throughout, the idea that sometimes law enforcement, the military, and the intelligence community might need to just… ignore these principles. Additionally, Dr. Prabhakar was director of DARPA for roughly five years, between 2012 and 2015, and considering what I know for a fact got funded within that window? Yeah.

To put a finer point on it, 14 out of 16 uses of the phrase "law enforcement" and 10 out of 11 uses of "national security" in this blueprint are in direct reference to why those entities' or concept structures' needs might have to supersede the recommendations of the BfaAIBoR itself. The blueprint also doesn't mention the depredations of extant military "AI" at all. Instead, it points to the idea that the Department Of Defense (DoD) "has adopted [AI] Ethical Principles, and tenets for Responsible Artificial Intelligence specifically tailored to its [national security and defense] activities." And so with all of that being the case, there are several current "AI" projects in the pipe which a blueprint like this wouldn't cover, even if it ever became policy, and frankly that just fundamentally undercuts Much of the real good a project like this could do.

For instance, at present, the DoD's ethical frames are entirely about transparency, explainability, and some lipservice around equitability and "deliberate steps to minimize unintended bias in Al …" To understand a bit more of what I mean by this, here's the DoD's "Responsible Artificial Intelligence Strategy…" pdf (which is not natively searchable and I had to OCR myself, so heads-up); and here's the Office of National Intelligence's "ethical principles" for building AI. Note that not once do they consider the moral status of the biases and values they have intentionally baked into their systems.

Read the rest of Further Thoughts on the "Blueprint for the AI Bill of Rights" at A Future Worth Thinking About

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How Does An Autonomous Drone Work?

What Is An Autonomous Drone?

Imagine a drone that flies on its own; no human is needed. That is an autonomous drone. It uses a combination of sensors, GPS, and software to navigate. Pretty cool, right?

Sensors And Cameras

These drones are equipped with sensors and cameras. Think of them as the drone's eyes. They detect obstacles, map the environment, and make real-time decisions. Lidar, ultrasonic, and infrared sensors are common.

GPS Navigation

GPS is the brain. It helps the autonomous drone know its location. The drone follows pre-set waypoints. It can also adjust its path if needed.

Software And AI

The magic happens here. Advanced algorithms and AI analyze data from sensors. The drone learns and improves over time. It recognizes patterns and can even predict obstacles.

Real-World Applications

Autonomous drones are everywhere. They are used in agriculture for crop monitoring. They inspect infrastructure like bridges and power lines. Even delivery services are hopping on the drone train.

Why SKYDIO X10 Is The Best

The SKYDIO X10 is the king of autonomous drones. Here is why:

Advanced AI: The X10's AI is top-notch. It can navigate complex environments effortlessly.

Unmatched Obstacle Avoidance: With 360-degree vision, it avoids obstacles like a pro.

Ease of Use: No need to be a tech whiz. The X10 is user-friendly.

Durability: It is built tough. Perfect for outdoor adventures.

Final Thoughts

Autonomous drones are game-changers. They blend technology and convenience. And if you are looking for the best, the SKYDIO X10 is your go-to option. Its cutting-edge features make it a standout choice.