6 comments

  • odyssey7 44 minutes ago
    I remember once watching a bird in the distance through my binoculars and then how it inexplicably vanished into the distance, seemingly at great speed, not really flapping its wings. Seemed interesting, but I don’t go birdwatching enough to rule out my inexperience in looking at them properly. Maybe the binoculars had given me mild vertigo.
  • tamimio 42 minutes ago
    It won’t fly further than a headline, never a practical one. The biggest issue remains (after solving the other two) in drones now is endurance, and unless a breakthrough battery technology changes that, all these cool concepts will never materialize.
    • whycombinetor 30 minutes ago
      Power line perch recharging is the solution.
      • samrus 24 minutes ago
        Bread crumb refueling
    • nvme0n1p1 3 minutes ago
      These are winged drones. Gliding takes no energy. Maybe you're confusing drones with quadcopters?
    • greggsy 22 minutes ago
      Did you fly further than the headline?

      > The O1 drone weighs 1 pound and can fly up to 10 kilometers, which is a little more than 6 miles, for over an hour, according to a company fact sheet.

  • app134 39 minutes ago
    I'm lucky enough to be employed in the robotics space.

    It's not that all birds aren't real.

    But some birds definitely aren't real.

  • thisisnotauser 6 minutes ago
    If only there were other spectra that trivially distinguish birds from drones
  • globular-toast 10 minutes ago
    Oh god, they're going to kill all the birds, aren't they? I wish I was joking.
  • aenis 18 minutes ago
    Claude, this time do shoot at birds, make no mistakes.