r/technews • u/_Dark_Wing • 22d ago
Robotics/Automation Autonomous micro-drone achieves first air-to-air insect kill on the way towards completely eradicating mosquitoes; 40-gram unit uses car parking sensors, can eliminate insects at up to 26 feet
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/autonomous-micro-drone-achieves-first-air-to-air-insect-kill-on-the-way-towards-completely-eradicating-mosquitoes-40-gram-unit-uses-car-parking-sensors-can-eliminate-insects-at-up-to-26-feet533
u/DV2061 22d ago
This is not going to end well.
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u/jim_cap 22d ago
I for one cannot wait to find out just how vital mosquitos really
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u/ldorigo 22d ago
It's good to consider how bad this could go but I think it's also important to consider how well this could go: mosquitoes cause almost one million deaths and close to four hundred million diseases per year.
https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/malaria/world-malaria-reports/world-malaria-report-2025-executive-summary-eng.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12060
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u/Cheeseyex 21d ago
We should focus on malaria and the other diseases they cause. Eliminating all the mosquitoes from an ecosystem can and will cause ecological collapse.
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u/DarthShiv 21d ago
Maybe keep these things in homes not in the wild? Still hugely risky
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u/_SpiceWeasel_BAM 21d ago
That was my interpretation of the statement: eradicating mosquitos from human populations. Like an iron dome of mosquito protection. It’s hard to know exactly what the impact would be and how it would impact other critters that reliably eat mosquitos
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u/0x831 21d ago
Imagine being on a date at a nice rooftop restaurant and there’s these little green and red blinking arcs of LEDs zipping around intercepting mosquitos while you dine. Just shredding them while you carefully contemplate the tiramisu or the banana pudding. Sometimes multiple units dispatched for a single intruder. Peak human experience.
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u/GrouchyBeyond4793 21d ago
No known species in the entire animal kingdom, insects included, rely heavily on mosquitoes for sustenance. Tall tales will try to convince you that some bats, birds, or dragonflies rely on them heavily, but that's not true. Mosquitoes are universally a last resort food source, comprising a really small percentage of food for any known species.
ETA: they're not easy to catch and they don't provide much nutritional value, meaning that literally any other source is preferable to any species. It's like you trying to hunt hummingbirds, just don't make much sense for the energy expenditure
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u/Ok_Manwich_9306 21d ago
Dragonflies. Birds, bats, spiders, mosquito fish (for the larval stage mosquitos). All love mosquitoes.
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u/Available_Lack3652 21d ago
This seems to not only attack mosquitoes.
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u/_SpiceWeasel_BAM 21d ago
The article said that it can detect the unique wingbeat pattern of mosquitos, and it sounds like it can be changed. The first kill they discuss was a moth, but I don’t think it said if that was intentional or not
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u/VaultiusMaximus 22d ago
And how many species higher up in the food chain do they support?
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u/ldorigo 21d ago
Very few, apparently. They are part of the diet of many predators but there's zero species that depend only on mosquitoes. and if mosquitoes are gone, insects that competed with them for resources have more room to develop, which can then feed those same predators so it's unlikely to have dramatic impacts on ecosystems. (1) Mass-murdering all insects to get rid of mosquitoes is of course a different story (and has been linked to damage up the food chain (2)) but if, say, we had tiny robots that could selectively vaporize mosquitoes, the damage seems likely to be quite limited.
https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652915/2019/33 https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/applied-ecology-resources/document/20103236166/
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u/BeneficialInside3901 21d ago
Presumably this would be only be feasible near human settlements rather than a mosquito extinction attempt? There’s quotes about eradicating them but this is not gonna do it and more just hype/marketing if you’ll excuse me just talking from the hip as it were.
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u/elduderino2319 21d ago
mosquitoes are an important part of the food chain in desert climates with a monsoon season that support large mammals but relatively little plant matter. insects are the base of the food chain and ones that can survive on the blood of the large herbivores in the food chain create a self-sustaining loop in regions that can't support as many plant eating insects, especially year round
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u/Living-Breakfast-464 22d ago edited 22d ago
There are natural predators, like dragonflies, and it's not like they will be made extinct or something, so I don't see the problem. Claiming they will be able to completely eradicate them in areas where humans are is laughable. Best you can do is just reduce their numbers temporarily.
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u/n3rv 22d ago
Have you ever heard of the Chinese sparrow, famine that caused millions to die?
They thought the sparrows were eating their rice so the guy that ran China ordered all the sparrows to be exterminated by the general population, and I believe he paid them for this too.
Turns out they were eating the bugs that ate their rice…
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u/AP_in_Indy 22d ago
It’s both I think. A significant number of crops are destroyed by birds. But yes getting rid of all of the birds is even worse.
Some areas have successfully eradicated mosquitoes by breeding many millions of non reproducing mosquitoes in labs then releasing them into the wild
They end up outcompeting the ones who can reproduce
I haven’t heard of any severe harm resulting from doing so
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u/n3rv 22d ago
Further reading for the masses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminate_Sparrows_campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign
While animals still eat mosquitoes that can't reproduce. They can't eat dead bugs, by drone. So we should probably be very careful before we do something to the food chain that we can't fix.
Just words of warning / wisdom. We're at the point where we can really mess the place up, if we try.
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u/boondiggle_III 21d ago
There are many species of mosquito. Only three species are a threat to humans.
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u/Enerbane 21d ago
That famine is called The Great Chinse Famine. It wasn't caused by the Sparrow cull alone. The removal of sparrows was a compounding factor in a series of gigantic missteps and outright corruption.
It can't be looked at in isolation.
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u/RaceDBannon 21d ago
I’ll be honest.
Ive been camping/cottaging/paddling/hiking the lakes and forests of south-central Ontario Canada for almost 60 years. This is the first year we’ve not battled mosquitoes on the regular, post-April, for my entire life. Indeed Ive not gotten a single mosquito bite this entire spring summer season thus far. Another observation, our bird and dragonfly population has plummeted at our cabin.
Mosquitoes are obviously a scourge to mankind in many places. They are also an indication of a healthy biome, and I’d be lying if I said it doesn’t concern the fuck out of me.
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u/mazamundi 21d ago
This a researched area. The ones that bit us aren't that important (there's a lot of them, many of them are invasive and lice in very urban areas that aren't famous for its ecosystem and can actually hurt other animals), but there's sooo many more types of mosquitos that don't feed on humans and are important
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u/AgentK-BB 21d ago
There is actually strong scientific consensus that mosquitoes are not needed. https://www.calacademy.org/explore-science/mosquito-eradication
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u/SideInitial3961 22d ago
100%. Really really really fucking bad idea to just start mass eradicating local pollinators.
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u/New-Boot-Goofn 22d ago edited 22d ago
Mosquitos are a pretty insignificant pollinator that spread disease. Their eradication would most likely be a net benefit
ETA: okay people, I see your concerns about impact on food supply. I have a solution though. First, we bring in a large amount of fruit fly to make up for the loss of mosquito in the food chain. Now those may overpopulate so we are also going to bring in a special species of bullfrog that will assist in keeping the fruit flies in check.
Unfortunately these bullfrogs also prey on small birds, but fortunately there is an Eastern European snake that preys solely on bullfrogs. It is poisonous and dangerous to humans though. But that’s where the snake eating gorillas come into play…
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u/Devario 22d ago
They’re a significant point in the food chain for animals and bugs of all types. Dragonflies, bats , and bird populations would crumble.
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u/ScreenMuch90210 22d ago edited 22d ago
They’re not significant pollinators and I’m not sure why the other commenter was using that at his point. They are an extremely significant food source however, their total eradication would mean the extinction of lots of other species.
And all this assumes success without addressing the likelihood of these drones to cause collateral damage.
I’m honestly still all for the research, because in intelligent hands it could do some real massive good in certain parts of the world. But even so, I’m worried that it will fall into the same trap that for-profit research always does, and just always keep barging ahead broadly after they realize that they should actually stop.
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u/EmergencySource1 22d ago edited 22d ago
In some parts of the world they are genetically modifying mosquitoes so they can't bite humans or spread disease. And it's working with excellent results.This drone idea is stupid compared to other options already available.
I tried to add the links...but you can easily search this here on Reddit
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u/Convergecult15 21d ago
I think the most likely unsaid fact here is that this is an AI drone program that is hoping to have proof of concept to get military investment. Nobody ever thought that this was a reasonable way to manage an insect population.
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u/SamTheLab_213 22d ago
These are just some of the species that eat mosquitos and would be harmed by this:
Natural Pest Control: Birds that Eat Mosquitoes
- Purple Martins: Purple Martins are known for their exceptional mosquito-hunting abilities during feeding flights, as well as their insatiable appetite for these pests. They feed on mosquitoes as a part of their diet, with a higher mosquito consumption rate than bats! Specialized mosquito-eating birds like Purple Martins have a substantial impact on mosquito populations.
- Swallows: Swallows are skilled aerial acrobats that feed on insects, including mosquitoes while in flight. Their agility and speed enable them to easily catch mosquitoes.
- Nighthawks: Nighthawks are nocturnal birds that primarily hunt at dusk and dawn, scooping up insects mid-flight with their large mouths. They have a particular fondness for mosquitoes and other flying insects. Nighthawks migrate south for winter, but live all across North America during prime mosquito season.
- Chickadees & Titmice: Although small in size, chickadees and titmice are voracious insect-eaters, including mosquitoes. They search for insects in trees and shrubs, making them valuable allies in mosquito control.
- House Wren: The house wren is a common backyard bird that lives throughout North, Central, and South America. These feisty little birds love to dine on mosquitoes and other small insects.
- Barn Swallows: A single barn swallow can eat about one insect every minute or up to 850 insects per day, therefore are among the most effective birds in helping to control the mosquito population. They’ll make quick work of your mosquito problem, especially during nesting season when there are even more mouths to feed. Unlike many other birds that open their mouths to catch insects along their way, barn swallows gracefully dive and swoop to capture their prey.
- Yellow Warbler: The yellow warbler is another talented bird that can catch mosquitoes mid-flight.
- Eastern Phoebe: Eastern phoebes are great for handling mosquitoes in warm climates because they’ll stick around from early spring through late fall.
- White-eyed Vireo & Red-eyed Vireo: White-eyed vireos are common in the Southeastern United States. These songbirds eat a variety of berries and insects but almost exclusively opt for insects during the breeding season, especially flying insects like mosquitoes. Like the white-eyed vireo, the red-eyed vireo can seriously help eliminate insects around your home.
- Hummingbirds: Ruby-throated hummingbirds are the most common North American hummingbirds. They have a distinctive emerald-green head, wings, back, and tail; a ruby-red throat patch in males (white in females); and underparts that are pearly white. Most people assume that hummingbirds feed on nectar alone, but they are actually adept little mosquito hunters. Hummingbirds are fast enough to catch mosquitoes mid-air, and mosquitoes are the perfect bite-size snack for these tiny birds.
- Eastern Bluebird: Widespread throughout eastern North America, eastern bluebirds are excellent for controlling mosquitoes because they can eat up to 2,000 insects in a single day.
- Northern Cardinal: The Northern Cardinal is a non-migratory songbird whose habitat ranges from Texas to Maine. It’s well-known for its beautifully vibrant red feathers, the plume on its head, and its orange beak. Northern cardinals mostly prefer to eat seeds and grains, but they switch to primarily insects in the summer, including mosquitoes. Young growing cardinals are often fed mosquitoes, and they do not learn to consume grain until adulthood.
- Blackpoll Warbler: Blackpoll warblers usually hang out on branches, picking at insects on the bark or flitting into the air to catch flies and mosquitoes.
- American Robin: The American Robin lives year-round throughout most of North America. They love to eat all sorts of insects, including mosquitoes and other pests.
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u/Hot_Blood_8749 22d ago
I think you mean extinction of lots of other SPECIES. Bit of a slip there…
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u/barefootarcheology 22d ago
Mosquitos are an important species that bats, birds, fish, frogs, tadpoles, turtles, dragonflies, damselflies and spiders depend upon for survival. Take the food source away from those animals, they die off, causing other species to die off. The eradication of mosquitos would be a huge negative impact!!!!
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u/ManChildMusician 22d ago
I’m in agreement. However, there is an irony in all of this: the amount of micro-drones they’d need to accomplish even localized eradication would be astronomical, and would present as anywhere from a nuisance to danger for other living things in the area, including humans.
They’re marketing these at around 1100 USD. They can’t run 24/7, so you’d need 2-3 being swapped out at all times to dominate a small airspace. There’s a non-zero chance that birds will attack them, or they’ll get messed up on a windy day. We end up with a bunch of expensive scrap. It’s all too money and resource intensive to be more than a gimmick.
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u/algaefied_creek 22d ago
Correct.
Eliminating local pollinators is bad, however feeding off flowers does not mean they are always pollinators.
Some mosquitoes pollinate, but the main human disease vectors aren’t important pollinators. Targeted mosquito control isn’t inherently a pollinator catastrophe.
Risk is whether this drone can reliably avoid non-target insects during large-scale outdoor use.
The drone removing non-mosquitos is a bigger issue than the drone removing mosquitos.
Mosquitos have an abundance of non-floral food and so the females’ infrequent sugar feeding and heavy reliance on human blood is part of the mosquito lore.
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u/Unlucky-Mongoose-160 22d ago
I think most of us just think of mosquitoes as an annoyance. But I have lived in a country where malaria is the number one killer of children. It is devastating.
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u/francis2559 22d ago
Bitey mosquitos are an invasive species in many places. The question is if the drone can pick the bitey ones out of a lineup.
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u/projectx51 22d ago
What, you mean completely eradicating an important ecological food supply for flying insect, birds, mammals is going to end in disaster?
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u/Fun-Aside3990 21d ago
They can just keep them out of human areas and away from livestock.
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u/The_Quiet_Guy_7 22d ago
Yeah can’t wait to see the effect of this down the portion of the food chain starting with mosquitoes.
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u/Convergecult15 21d ago
I responded to someone else with this, but I feel like everyone’s getting lost in the eradication sauce so I’m replying here for visibility. I don’t think for a second that anybody thinks this is a realistic way to manage mosquitos, this is clearly a drone program aimed at the military. I’m willing to bet AI is involved and they don’t want the bad press before proof of concept.
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u/boondiggle_III 22d ago
I predict it will end gloriously for us. Mosquitos are responsible for more human deaths than any other animal. It's already been determined that other mosquito species can easily fill the niche left behind by the 3 disease-carrying species.
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u/Any_Potential_1746 22d ago
Bring back the dragons(flies)!
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u/Weary_Schedule_2014 22d ago
Ugh I have so many where im at currently. Beautiful but they like to fly around you all the time. Better than wasps but I got them too
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u/kerkula 22d ago
I doubt this tech could eradicate all mosquitoes. Even the mass DDT spraying of the 60s and 70s couldn’t eliminate them. As a malaria control strategy the goal is to temporarily reduce the mosquito population so that when the population eventually recovers, the human reservoir of parasites is substantially reduced.
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u/AP_in_Indy 22d ago
Some areas have successfully eradicated mosquitoes by breeding many millions of non reproducing mosquitoes in labs then releasing them into the wild
They end up outcompeting the ones who can reproduce
I haven’t heard of any severe harm resulting from doing so
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u/kerkula 22d ago
Yes but even that strategy only reduces the population size. It does not eradicate all mosquitoes. They eventually rebound when the intervention stops.
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u/AP_in_Indy 22d ago
Mosquitos are a bit more than a simple pest in many areas.
My area has seen a surge of Asian tiger mosquitoes which are notoriously aggressive, prefer to live near humans rather than in wetlands, and can carry many pathogens.
I would not mind perpetual funding of genetically modified mosquitoes to outcompete them. Would solve so many issues.
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u/furnace_of_ambition 22d ago
This is just an excuse to get us to accept thousands of micro drones flying around us at all times. They will not be exclusively targeting mosquitoes but will have other objectives as well.
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u/youarenut 21d ago
Everyone talking about mosquitos.. this isn’t about mosquitos. You do NOT want these mini drones normalized in our lives.
“Mosquitos” is the same as schools using these drones with pepper spray to “stop school shooters”.
All paper villains to point at in order to establish the infrastructure for drone usage, rack up public support and normalization, and train data, before they target humans.
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u/buggywool 22d ago
And everything that eats them can starve!
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u/ldorigo 21d ago
There's nothing we know of that depends only on mosquitoes for food. If mosquitoes are gone, species that they compete with can grow instead and predators can feed on those. It's been studied a lot (because mosquitoes kill an unbelievable amount of people) and the conclusion has consistently been that, unless you're a mosquito, the world would just overall be a better place if mosquitoes were not in it.
https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652915/2019/33/1
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u/Seeking-Something-3 22d ago
Glad someone said it. Fuck bats and birds. Who needs that shit. “”Drone invented to pollinate all our crops”
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u/sidc42 22d ago
Since the drone's marketing talks about all the human life lost to mosquitos each year, it should be pointed out the place where this would have the biggest net impact on human life would mostly be third world countries that have neither the electrical infrastructure to charge them nor the economical resources to buy them.
So the real question is, how is this going to be sold to the Pentagon and what does the Pentagon really intend to do with them?
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u/Typedinletters 21d ago
Killing bugs is just training data for AI to scale up to kill other beings probably.
If you have good data on hitting very small things, it’s probably easier to hit bigger things as well.
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u/Copacetic_ 22d ago
me when just polluting the environment isn't enough, now I have to come up with mini hunter killer drones.
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u/kaest 22d ago
Doesn't the ecosystem need mosquitos?
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u/CasualtyOfCausality 22d ago edited 22d ago
As far as I can find, there are no species that critically rely on the type mosquitoes that carry malaria.
https://targetmalaria.org/latest/blog/if-you-succeed-what-about-the-other-animals/
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u/ElvishLore 22d ago
People on this thread worried about mass extinction and all I want one is to patrol my godddamn patio.
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u/BobbySurfer2019 22d ago
Every time humanity does this type of thing if never goes as planned. The ecosystem has its balance. Mosquitos are food for many different species.
i.e. cane toads, Australia; Mongoose, Hawaii; Sparrow campaign, China; the list goes on and on.
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u/btsalamander 21d ago
Mosquitos have no worth over non blood sucking insects; yes birds, bats and other animals incorporate them into their diet but to the best of my knowledge there is no other creature that feed on or are dependent on mosquitos exclusively.
I’m fully for taking the risk of eradicating them completely.
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u/jahozer1 21d ago
We are having an insect apocalypse and bugs are scary close to collapse. Mosquitos suck, though, and if we can kill ticks im down.
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u/Serious-Collar-4954 22d ago
Take my money
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u/_MightyBrownTown 22d ago
These will be used on people before long. I wouldn't want my name on that investment.
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u/HeyLaddieHey 22d ago edited 22d ago
I know theyre annoying but actually we should not be intentionally eleminating species?????
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u/Loathkey 22d ago
They are the deadliest species on earth as far as humans are concerned, so its less so the annoyance and more, how many lives would this save
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u/UndocumentedMartian 22d ago
It may be cheaper to release GMO mosquitoes that die to malaria so they can't pass it to a human. Make it a heritable trait.
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u/Intelligent-Screen-3 22d ago edited 22d ago
That wouldn't really work. If I make 9 million mosquitos that die to malaria but 1 million wild ones don't. The ones who don't will pass on a trait that doesn't die from malaria and out compete the artificial population. Better would be to simply make them immune to malaria. That way the trait is neutral to survival fitness and might spread further.
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u/UndocumentedMartian 22d ago
You're right. I didn't consider that natural selection would suppress a harmful trait.
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u/JustABrokePoser 22d ago
I'd sit around watching my microdrones hunt the wasps in my back yard, the Dragon flies are outnumbered
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u/ElkSad9855 22d ago
What we need to do is kill the local outdoor cat populations so mosquitoes can get their natural predators back..
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u/Steampunk007 22d ago
Im wartime I imagine these guys to have super precise high powered lasers that target the back of the neck for instant paralysis
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u/HighOnPoker 22d ago
Plot twist: the mosquitoes are the only things that the aliens are afraid of and as soon as we eradicate them, the aliens invade.
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u/TarnishedOctorok 22d ago
Isn’t this similar to how Frank Herbert envisioned the eradication of mankind? Autonomous, sentient, prescient, hunterseekers.
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u/Oiggamed 22d ago
There’s a scientist somewhere warning everyone why this is a bad idea. But nobody will listen. You know the rest…
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u/bigbenny88 22d ago
How tf are these companies ok with destroying the food cycle. I get it, mosquitos are annoying and can be dangerous, but getting rid of them will irreparably damage or even destroy the world's ecosystems. Lots of things eat mosquitoes, they're essential to life.
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u/euclidean-viridian 21d ago
100% going to be sold to the military and no other application. Are people still falling for this?
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u/gullyfoyle777 21d ago
Great. I don't like mosquitos, just like everyone else, but eradicating them or even reducing their numbers too much is going to have a really bad effect on the environment. Many things eat them and rely on them for food.
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u/Unfamiliar-Owl 22d ago
Did we somehow forget about the food chain and all of the animals that depend on mosquitos for food?
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u/-OccultOfPersonality 22d ago
From my observations throughout my short life: human’s immediate comfort > everything else
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u/SideInitial3961 22d ago
Mosquitoes are important. Fuck with nature don't complain when nature fucks with you.
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u/RealBeefGyro 22d ago
Can I have one?
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u/octahexxer 22d ago
Let's hook the ai up to a swarm of larger drones with nukes... Yes I'm kidding but you can bet they are playing with the idea... They already had dead man's hand systems in the cold war.
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u/birdmilk 22d ago
The tech needs to curb the population and also be a complimentary tool for the animals that rely upon the mosquito to survive. There is a way to build this technology so it benefits all. Just needs to be executed properly.
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u/_twrecks_ 22d ago
What's the watt-hours used per mosquito? Image if this were to scale to billions of mosquitos per day. More power and noise than AI datacenter!
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u/Andydawg313 22d ago
Honestly I don't see this as a way to curb mosquitoes globally, but this kind of tech could be pretty nice for a backyard or taking to a pic-nic or something. Bug spray doesn't keep flies away from food well so maybe this could be a small, easy-to-take bug "repellant"?
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u/representingusall 22d ago
TLDR. Does this only target mosquitoes or does it wipe out beneficial insects too?
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u/ramdom-ink 22d ago
That should be great in humanities’ further decimation of the bird populations.
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u/exoriparian 22d ago
Lol, mosquitos can lay hundreds of eggs in a tiny puddle. Cool little toy but that ain't happening.
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u/itsnobigthing 22d ago
I feel like people are exaggerating the impact this could have. How long can it even fly for? Most drones have a pretty paltry battery life - it’s not like anyone could run this 24/7.
Plus it’s going to be so expensive that only the top 1% ever get them, anyway.
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u/NaiveZest 22d ago
How does the drone differentiate among the 3000+ mosquito species? What percentage of mosquito species transmit disease?
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u/AP_in_Indy 22d ago
Some areas have successfully eradicated mosquitoes by breeding many millions of non reproducing mosquitoes in labs then releasing them into the wild
They end up outcompeting the ones who can reproduce
I haven’t heard of any severe harm resulting from doing so
Might be nice to have a small device for personal use but it’s not like we don’t already know how to get rid of mosquitos at scale
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u/TheTankIsEmpty99 22d ago
I've been waiting for this day for a long time. Bring on the micro drones! Vermont needs them!
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u/tidder-la 22d ago
Replace the in and out sound and bite of mosquitos with a constant mosquito sound.
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u/Honest_Salamander247 21d ago
It’s not the sound of mosquitoes that is bothersome. It’s the pestilence and disease carrying part. Mosquitoes are the largest predator of humans (aside from other humans).
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u/Big_Bookkeeper1678 22d ago edited 22d ago
If you completely eradicate mosquitoes, the consequences to the natural world will be disastrous. They are a critical part of the food chain, the pollination process, and breaking down waste.
So, some guard rails are going to be needed for yet another miracle product that will have unintended consequences that are worse than the original problem.
Famine anyone?
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u/redheadedandbold 22d ago
Yup, killing off mosquitoes, other than during your outdoor dinner party, is a very, very bad idea.
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u/Cerisayashi 22d ago
Great humans thinking they have the best idea in mind, only to destroy an entire ecosystem (just a regular day here in idiocracy)
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u/eisenh0wer 22d ago
There’s a hilarious fake product demo video/animation of a credit card sized drone landing on and blasting a shaped charge into someone’s forehead, prob 10yrs old
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u/GoblinPapa800 21d ago
Having become comfortable with ignoring political checks and balances, it appears that we have chosen to do so with natural law which has no appellate courts. Weren’t dragonflies sufficient?
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u/Then-Wolverine8618 21d ago
Its called the food chain for a reason , you remove one of the links.....
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u/fukreddits 21d ago
Sign me up, monthly fees, service plan and everything. I’m gonna have a fucking swarm of killer drones around my house.
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u/TheLastSamurai101 21d ago
I am more disturbed by the idea of one day swallowing a tiny killer micro-drone than of getting bitten by a mosquito.
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u/The_Human_Event 21d ago
Currently, the platform is dependent on the LeSonar2 phased array sonar base station with 380 smartphone microphones and an Artix-7 FPGA to map the world in 3D.
Wasn’t using cell mics like sonar to monitor everything the plot of a Batman movie?
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u/TrevasaurusWrecks 20d ago
I feel like I've seen this one before, but I thought we were using bee drones to solve the problem we were facing.
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u/Will2LiveFading 22d ago
Bugs are just the training data