Canada might need these sooner rather than later.
With the breakdown of democracy and the rule of law in America, the Constitution just became wholly unenforceable and therefore irrelevant. That means that Trump could make good on his fever dream of invading Canada.
And there are many Americans who would jump at the chance to obey his command to slaughter Canadians. With only 40M against America’s 334M - and 0.097M military personnel against America’s 2.1M - it would be absolutely no contest.
Our only way of making such a fascist act of aggression as painful as possible would be with asymmetrical warfare using tiny, hard-to-defeat drones that could act independently and strike without warning. Deploy 10k of these suckers onto a battlefield, and the only survivors would be those within sealed armour or flying at high altitude. Because even an A10 Warthog loitering low over the field can be taken out if it unexpectedly ingests a half-dozen of the explosive buggers.
Nope, I’m out
We all know where this is gonna end…
Surveillance drones everywhere.
Surveillance is the “nice” version of it.
Anal probes everywhere.
Exactly! Flying, they are flying everywheeeaaahhhh!
DilDrone™
Yeah I was gonna say like why are we even workshopping the name with a winner like that. Get this employee a bonus check!
There is no way these things could spread poison instead of pollen is there?
#BugsArentReal
The new technology could increase crop yields dramatically without harming the environment.
That’s a surprisingly benign use case, I was expecting far worse.
Without a doubt they will have those other use cases in mind too. Mentioning them is just not good for marketing in public.
Humans are the crops.
*corps
*corpses
*corpses
*corpses
I guess I’m the only one thinking about how it’s inevitable that birds and other animals will mistake them for real insects and die from ingesting these things, god knows what kind of toxic materials they’re made of but I’m willing to bet it’s not safe to eat them
Looks like they hovered for 1000 seconds. It was previously stress limited such that the joints would break after just a few seconds. I think they might still be tethered for a power source, I haven’t seen any of these micro flapping bots include a battery yet, and they didn’t mention that they did.
Bradbury called it in Farahenheit 451.
Because developing a replacement for bees is certainly a better solution then saving the bees…
They think there will be more profit in it, especially since bees can’t be repurposed as weapons.
bees can’t be repurposed as weapons.
Capitalism will find a way.
https://cherwell.org/2024/10/18/oxford-scientists-microchip-bees-with-smallest-radar-ever/
In the latest video about this by veritasium, he asked the researcher about ethics concern. the researcher insist that they dont care as humanity can decide for itself.
Meanwhile:
The new report also details the extent of MIT’s partnerships with Israeli military contractors like Elbit Systems, which supplies 85 percent of Israel’s killer drones, and Maersk, one of the world’s largest shipping companies, that has sent millions of pounds of military goods to Israel since the start of the war on Gaza. The Israeli military also sponsored several of the MIT projects with funds provided by the U.S. Defense Department.
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/16/mit-israel-military-funding-research-gaza/
MIT also (indirectly) killed Aaron Swartz.
MIT also (indirectly) killed Aaron Swartz.
That researcher is a real life Dr. Hoenikker. Vonnegut is probably shrugging in his grave
Dear technology under capitalism… We just want healthcare, housing, etc… We don’t fucking need swarms of robot insects.
How’s this for an obscure reference? This reminded me of an episode of Max Headroom in which the wunderkind Bryce invented a robotic fly with a spycam that could be used to literally bug a room. They send it on a mission to uncover an evil plot and everyone is excitedly crowded around the screen and heaping praise on it. Then it manages to sneak into the evil lair where it promptly gets swatted, leaving Bryce shocked and devastated.
They also did this in Spy Kids
It wont be long now before the nanobots exist and the Borg can finally take over. Resistance is futile.
I’ve seen this episode of Black Mirror.
