AI powered ? So no need for batteries or fuel ? Yes, this is how it is called, but in my opinion it should be “a.i. guided” or “a.i. controlled” …
P.S. : Many thanks to Germans for this amongst other help.
It’s a new technology. See, there’s a tiny little AI robot in there with a little pedal machine that turns the wheels.
Maybe it’s powered by Strong AI? That would make it extremely powerful… or strong… or something?
Logistics drones /w AI seems like a real solid use. Identifying and avoiding static obstacles while navigating to a set point will be their primary job. Send them to resupply the front line where a truck/driver might get targeted by a drone.
they couldn’t handle a large capacity though. a truck can handle thousands of times the volume
they wouldn’t be much use for ammo or anything heavy like that: they’d pretty much be able to deliver meals and nothing else… perhaps repair parts for small things
i do know that they’ve setup logistics networks in africa with fixed-wing drones to deliver things like blood and medicine to hospitals, so that could be a good use for fixed wing drones - they need range and speed
Gereon RCS is a ground based drone, which can carry 500kg. The AI is needed, as remote controlling it is harder, due to obstacles on the ground making the radio link more difficult.
oh great! yeah i couldn’t load the article - the website seemed overloaded :(
in that case, totally agree! great idea!
Wait we have AI-powered drones?
We’ve been working towards it for a while now.
The best weapon against drones is jamming. Interrupting the connection between drone and operator, leaving it blind and deaf.
However an AI controlled drone could overcome this and finish its mission by itself
Can it, though? :)
That depends on the mission. If it is take pictures and send them back that is easy so long as you can accept some lag - just fly around and record until the jamming stops - which you can handle by flying back. You can also say “if jammed take out any found target within X distance” (where X is the distance to the nearest thing that could be yours) - you might not get the ideal target but hitting a decoy still means the next drone won’t make that mistake and you might randomly find something valuable. If there are a group of drones it is possible they can still communicate with each other (close communication is harder to jam) and thus triangulate where the jammer is and then take it out (or one drone fly back to give that information back thus getting a different drone sent to the jammer).
The scifi ideal is the drone just hunts a target on its own and can recognize things never seen before as targets while never accidentally hitting your own things. This is not possible today, but there are a lot of lesser things that are possible and those can be useful.
Of course we don’t know what this thing does. It might or might not be anything useful. Only time will tell - though you might be dead before the information needed to know is declassified.
Within this week? Probably not
In the next 10000 years? Almost certainly
Anything within this timescale? Nobody knows
