The Secret Is Out!

[threegee]

Actually it was out the other day when the news contained crime scene shots that could only have been taken by a quadcopter or similar.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...siness-24712136

Next... the anti-surveillance copter copter (deploys smoke screen)!

[mercuryg]

I wasn't aware this was a secret, 3G! This sort of surveillance equipment has been in use with security services across the land for many years. That one's surprisingly big!

[threegee]

Agreed, but I'm referring to use in national news gathering. They've also been used by smaller film companies getting maximum bang for production buck for quite a while too. I don't think any Beeb claim for first use in news gathering will stand up; likely other organisations just got on with it whilst the Beeb suits were in endless meetings and writing their rule book.

I'm told by an "expert" that: "that's a zenmuse gimbal on a DJI hexacopter". So.. now you know what your licence fee is being spent on.

[Malcolm Robinson]

[mercuryg]

Malcolm, if you like that, watch this....http://www.ted.com/talks/vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_cooperate.html (and if someone can make it a clickable link for a technophobe me, please do....)

 

edit; ooh, it is one!

 

** also, scroll a few minutes in to where the fun starts

Edited November 30, 2013 by mercuryg

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

Remember seeing ASIMO on QI - 2011 and thinking that must be the current best. Later discovered that those in the know think there is a more advanced robot, not in the World's 10 most Amazing Robots, and that is Petman:-

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGZoMPXG0MI