Now Drones with CLAWS?! Modeled after eagle talons....

[link to www.newscientist.com]

Vid at link

AS IF being eyes in the sky weren't enough, drones are now getting arms and legs, too. With their newfound limbs they are learning to grab objects in mid-flight or even change a light bulb.

Inspired by the way a bald eagle swoops down to seize a fish from the water with its claws, Justin Thomas and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have developed a fast-acting, talon-like gripper for a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

When the team studied the eagle's behaviour, they noticed that the bird employed a useful trick to buy more time to grab its prey. The eagle would sweep its legs and claws backwards as its talons closed on a fish, so there was no need to slow down.

The team have mimicked the eagle's strategy by attaching a 3D-printed, three-fingered claw to a 10-centimetre-long motorised leg. With the appendage fixed below its centre of mass, the drone can snatch a stationary object as it flies by.

Eagle talons? Totally sweet cars!

Wokka Wokka!

:wokkawokka:

These things could be scaled up to be big enough to grab people.

The future looks bright!

I've posted about this before, but when I saw this episode I got really uneasy. It's seeming more and more like a blueprint of sorts.

[link to www.virtualworldlets.net]

HIDE THE BABIES!

Not to be a Bibletard or anything but doesn't the Bible mention something like that?

Good we can lure the sons of bitches into traps.

12 gauge.....7 1/2 bird shot should do the trick.

means in 2 to 4 years all the drones can pick up military vehicles and drop em into the river, lake or sea nearby!
awesome!

Hmmmm I wonder how we could make this incredibly unethical and inefficient weapon of war even more unethical and inefficient?
Throw some talons on it of course!

Bright as an atom bomb

You are 100 times wore than any bible "tard".

You're just an ignorant moron, who calls well-studied, astute, and spiritually tuned in people, "tards".

I just imagine drones killing innocent women and children - yeah that's what they do.

:TheTruth:

number 4. Might not get close enough for 7 1/2

You realize killer robots are now a reality and you're just allowing them to evolve.

To even kill innocents.

WOW!

it's so that they can snatch babies.

I know . . . we are just sitting back and letting it happen. What to do . . . ???

I dunno but it seems as if the endgame is approaching us pretty quickly now. The whole world is about to sneeze.

I know the idea of this is alarming as hell.

The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8 Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.

Hey J&V - on a lighter note - is that pretty ring on your finger an engagement ring? Are we to be celebrating for you? :)

If that is the case

:celebratewyou:

We can grab those damn antiwar protesters right off the grass on the Washington Mall and dump their corpses in Chesapeake Bay!

How funny you should say that . . . I was just thinking how nobody is protesting nearly as much as they did in the seventies - people absolutely threw their hearts and souls into a cause. Not these days.

Nah its a claddagh ring in celeb for st pattys day today :)

Come at me!

this sounds more and more like the movie Eyeborgs.

The movie opens by explaining current events such as the passing of the "Freedom of Observation Act" and the subsequent implementation of ODIN (Optical Defense Intelligence Network), including the development of a new type of mobile camera drone, the eponymous "eyeborg". The system is administered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). more here [link to en.wikipedia.org]
here is a 2 minute trailer

here is link for those who can't view this here
[link to www.youtube.com]
I expect this to get me banned. so enjoy